Silk Road

Active engagement with participating countries of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is needed to ensure the infrastructure being developed is in line with the affordability of the respective countries. Former Minister of International Trade and Industry …

After the second day of violent clashes between police and protestors in Hong Kong, and with China moving tanks near the city in a show of force, the supposed "leader of the free world" offered a few remarks on the authoritarian crackdown: "The Hong Kong thin…

India's move to carve up Kashmir and curtail its autonomous powers has caused division and anger in parts of the far-flung Himalayan region even as followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejoice. Since Modi's shock decree last week, protests and celebrati…

Complex doesnt even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. Whats clear in our current, volatile moment is that theyre partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up,…

The onset of the latest Kashmir Crisis following India’s “Israeli”-like unilateral moves there last week have raised the question among many in the Alt-Media Community of whether the SCO could help mediate a solution between New Delhi and Islamabad, but the f…

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) carries a story on Monday, citing that China is likely to decouple from the global multilateral trade framework, mainly grieved by the US’ if the protectionism policies. “The convergence of China with the West, initiated b…

. PHOTO: ANADOLU ANKARA: Taiwanese scholar Chien-Yu Shih claimed on Saturday that New Delhi’s recent move in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) was an attempt to check China’s growing influence in the region. Shih, who is the secretary general of the Taiwan-bas…

Ailsa Ross | Longreads | August 2019 | 22 minutes (6,062 words) Its the winter of 1923 and a five-foot tall woman is shooting at brigands in Tibet. Shes surviving a blizzard by eating boot leather. Shes accepting a maggot-dancing stew from a drug-addled butc…

Community Voices features opinion pieces from a wide variety of authors and perspectives. (Submission Guidelines)The Holocaust was a 1940s high-tech genocide. Nazi leadership mobilized German scientists, doctors, engineers, and business experts to research an…

The National League for Democracy was forged in an uprising against one-party rule. Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmars military junta. But since taking power three years ago, the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has found an unlikely…