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When the Centre stripped Jammu and Kashmir of special status under Article 370 and split the state into two Union Territories, one of the main rationales given for the decision was this: special status was a “hurdle for the development of Kashmir”. At the same time, it revoked Article 35A,…

Guests wait for the start of the “China, We are With You” fashion show from Chinese designer Han Wen, who is based in New York, kicking off the fashion week in Milan on February 18, 2020. – Milan Fashion Week kicks off on February 18, but coronavirus proves to damper…

GIUSEPPE LAMI/APChinese President Xi Jinping has overseen an aggressive Chinese move into Africa.OPINION: Much has been written about the "two faces" of China. In The New York Times in 2005, Joseph Kahn compared China's wish to be viewed as an emerging, benevolent superpower with the reality that China might resort…

Darius Shahtahmasebi is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst who focuses on US foreign policy in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific region. He is fully qualified as a lawyer in two international jurisdictions.is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst who focuses on US foreign policy in the…

The Karakax list shows that totalitarian methods are being used to "re-educate" an entire people in the northwest of China. Many Uighurs are sent to camps without trial, DW's Matthias von Hein writes. The data leak known as the Karakax list has added to the evidence that the Chinese state…

Op-Ed by Neenah Payne The coronavirus crisis must not make us lose sight of the importance of understanding how powerful China has become under President Xi Jinping. China is one of the most rapidly changing countries on the planet – and is also changing the world in several key ways.…

Kazakhstan and Russia, which are among the founders of the EAEU, will continue to remain the “locomotives” of Eurasian integration, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday (15 February). Tokayev, who was elected last June following the surprising stepping down of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev,…

A considerable spectrum of the liberal West takes the American interpretation of what civilization consists of to be something like an immutable law of nature. But what if this interpretation is on the verge of an irreparable breakdown? Michael Vlahos has argued that the US is not a mere nation-state but a…

On 5 October 2019, in Athens, Greek Minister for Defence Nikólaos Panayotópoulos, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed a “Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement”. The Greek Parliament ratified the Agreement, which grants the United States the use of all Greek military bases. They will be used by the US…

"Whenever we speak to countries around the world, we want to make sure that we're doing what the people of those countries want," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this month at a news conference in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.The Uzbeks want a "good, balanced relationship," he said."They have…