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A distinct community The Uighur are a Turkic-speaking minority based in China's northwestern Xinjiang province. They are predominantly a Sunni Muslim community, and one of the 55 recognized ethnic minorities in China. Most Uighurs view Beijing as a "coloniz…

India’s practice of “military diplomacy” in holding joint drills with a variety of Great Powers and regional states has been a mixed bag of success since the former has resulted in sending positive signals about “multi-alignment” while the latter risks fuelin…

china xi jinping Nicolas Asfouri/Pool Photo via AP Xi Jinping is the current president of the People's Republic of China and has been in power since 2013. During the early years of his leadership, Xi became known for launching a nationwide…

When French President Emmanuel Macron was recently in China on a three-day visit, he said that he was speaking in the name of Europe. Such a comment might not have gone down well in Berlin. Or did Macron confer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before goin…

Chinas advanced surveillance regime is taking root along the length of the Belt and Roadespecially the Belt, the overland Eurasian routes that were the origin of the governments ambitious investment project. Recently, Kyrgyzstan opened a new police command ce…

The image leaps right off the page, or electric screen, to the surf-obsessed eye. Its clearly a man surfing a wave. Sure, hes standing on the back of a fish. But the stance, the positioning, its unmistakable. The man is surfing. That the surfing man was carve…

November 15, 2019  12:43 PM The first thing that comes as a surprise to a visitor is just how quiet it is. You can see people on the streets, but shops and offices are all closed. Officially, the schools are open, but the classrooms are largely empty becaus…

A 2018 Pew Survey found that 89% of Greeks found their culture to be superior to others, by far the highest amount of people in Europe where it reached as low as 26% in Sweden, 23% in Estonia and Belgium, and 20% in Spain. The Greeks are by far the…

The successful regime change operation that was just carried out in Bolivia throughout the course of the country’s ongoing US-backed Hybrid War could have some game-changing geostrategic consequences if the coup “authorities” renege on the previous agreements…

Facility at Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia in 2018. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters) The state-owned oil giants intent to go public is deeply problematic for the West, the United States, and the global economy.On November 9, the Kingd…