Blinken said Israelis and Palestinians deserved “equal rights and opportunities,” and that an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel was the best way to achieve that. Elizabeth Hagedorn As a member of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s traveling press pool this week, I had an up-close view as America’s top diplomat swung through the Middle East to...
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An enlarged AUKUS would fuel confrontation in the Asia-Pacific
Both AUKUS and Quad are nothing but geopolitical tools of the US to contain China.
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Powerful Profit, Common Cost: The Tale of Inequality
Many consumers termed the recent petroleum increase as an ‘inflation bomb’ and criticized the government. There is no denying that in such a situation, common man pays the price while the powerful make the fortune. Workers with professional and academic backgrounds often need to take up additional employment to make ends meet. Occasionally, people only...
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What Message Brunei People Convery to the World on Their National Day
Bruneians commemorates their National Day when His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah was crowned the 29th Sultan of Brunei and the day the nation gained its independence from the British in 1984. The day Brunei declared its independence from British colonial authority in 1984 is commemorated annually as Independence Day. This moment signified the commencement...
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What is next in the China-India border conflict?
India and China started the year with a round of inconclusive talks on an ongoing border dispute in the Himalayas. The disagreement is a potentially dangerous flashpoint between Asia’s two biggest powers. Aditya Sharma The disputed Himalayan border between India and China sees little activity this time of the year. Large swaths of the area...
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Minorities in ‘Secular’ India
After gaining independence from the British Empire in 1947, India aspired to be a secular nation where people of all faiths could live in peace. Constitutionally, India is a sovereign socialist, secular democratic republic.
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Central Asia’s authoritarians stare down a year of disorder
Afghanistan remained a source of security threats to all Central Asian countries. By Kirill Nourzhanov Political turmoil and uncertainty beset Central Asia in 2022. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan faced domestic, regional and international challenges exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. This brought into sharp relief both the systemic threats to peace and stability...
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Shift from Gross Domestic Product to Gross Overreaction is Destroying Pakistan
The apparent benefit that the government may have gained as a result of the detention of PTI member, Fawad Chaudhry is up for debate. The government somehow missed to keep its focus on country’s GDP, strayed to gross overreaction. The power play is on the show as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s narrative of persecution at the...
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China’s Economic Growth: Permanent or Temporary?
Is it feasible for China to return to its previous level of sustained high development now that President Xi Jinping has been established as China’s leader for life and the country has departed the zero-COVID period? Or the era of growth is over? Since the beginning of the pandemic, the economy that is now the...
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The illusion of Jordan’s custodianship
Arab leaders do not pay attention to the Occupation's crimes, unless events occur that could explode the situation to the extent that they fear losing control over them.