By next year, China aims to have the capability to track the social behaviour of its 1.4 billion population under a complex infrastructure of social credit systems (SCS) through modern…

The saying ‘subduing the enemy without fighting’ appears profoundly convincing when it comes to China’s policy towards the Middle East. The oscillation of China’s diplomatic pendulum among Saudi Arabia, UAE,…

The extension of COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa recalls the memory of the former Army Chief given an extension. Back then, the impetus of such a decision was different than…

‘Fight for Hong Kong’, ‘Stand with Hong Kong’, ‘Liberate Hong Kong’, these are the slogans of the Hong Kongese protesting for over four months now. The row started with the…

Covering around 3,500,000 square kilometers of area positioned between the Straits of Karimata and Malaca to the Straits of Taiwan; the South China Sea has been irrepressible to maritime security…

When a redeemed (neoconservative), termed John Bolton, in perhaps a more eloquent arraignment of neoconservative ideology than one expects coming out of Fox, a ‘bureaucratic tapeworm’, it might have been…

We live in a world that is changing, and changing fast. There is hardly any aspect rooted in permanence. The world order is in constant flux; and subsequent changes are…

Published in 2014, Henry Kissinger, in his book titled ‘World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History’ wrote that ‘the United States (US) if separated…

The values of globalization, multilateralism and free trade have been the sine qua non of the United States’ (US) policies since the introduction of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points. The materialization…

An average benign thought would defy the possibility of war between a United States (US) — who has seemingly failed to sustain a stable government in Afghanistan or Iraq, has…