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India watches as China ‘accelerates’ construction along border with Bhutan

US allows international banks to transfer aid money to Afghanistan China speeded up construction in 2021, according to new satellite images and experts, erecting more than 200 structures in six…

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Himalayan bridge project sparks fresh China – India tension

By Bilal Hussain The tension between India and China is mounting again in the Himalayan region of Ladakh over a new bridge constructed by the Chinese on the banks of…

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Xijinpingistan is why India should co-opt Pakistan

By Bharat Karnad It is my perennial lament. I pen it again, with sorrow, on the country's 73rd Republic Day. (Yea, I watched the parade but what's with the marching…

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Mixed signals from Ladakh

By M. K. Bhadrakumar Is the glass half empty? Or, is the glass half full? How would you choose to describe the recent meeting of the Indian and Chinese army…

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Pearl Harbor! Lessons for the emerging China

By Bismah Mirza Almost 80 years ago, on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor took place. It is believed that the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese was in retaliation to…

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Special Address by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 2022 World Economic Forum Virtual Session

Answers must be given to major, urgent questions of how to beat the pandemic and how to build the post-COVID world, Chinese President Xi Jipning said at the 2022 World…

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Durand line and the nascent Taliban regime

By Sohaib Ali The readjustment and realignment of the Durand line based on historic accounts would be fatal for even Afghanistan itself- as it had been ruled by the monarchies…

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Hope and despair in the Taliban’s heartlands

On the US - built highway that connects Kabul to southern Afghanistan, civilians and former insurgents struggle to adjust to peacetime life By Modaser Islami This “Letter from Kabul” is…

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How Pakistan will serve as pressure valves for balancing new cold war tensions?

By Andrew Korybko In the event that the US continues prioritizing China, then Pakistan's CPEC will become more important than ever for facilitating the People's Republic's geo-economic engagement with the…

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A 1949 Air Crash that may have changed Pakistan’s history

By Major General Syed Ali Hamid At 10 pm on the 12th of December 1949, a DC-3C Dakota of Pak Air Services (AP-ADI) flying from Lahore to Karachi crashed near…

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