At the United Nations and other global forums, Pakistan has been sounding the alarm: a new era of terrorism is taking shape on its western frontier, powered not by ideology alone but by something far more lethal—abandoned American weapons, porous borders, and an international community unwilling to act. Groups like the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and the […]

The trade war is a fast-moving and chaotic story. At the time of publication, the United States has imposed tariffs of 145 percent on most Chinese imports, and China has responded by slapping 125 percent tariffs on U.S. goods. But Washington has carved out exemptions for some items, such as copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, laptops, and smartphones. A Chinese-made lithium-ion battery […]

During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centered around a totally different issue, they certainly had a negative impact on US, Trump himself and of course greater part of the world. Yes, this was Trump’s claim that the disease Covid-19 was a “Chinese virus.” […]

Tens of thousands of Afghan nationals have been deported through key border crossings in April as part of Pakistan’s renewed crackdown on undocumented migrants [Islamabad] Pakistan has stepped up its mass deportation of Afghan nationals, expelling tens of thousands through major border crossings in April, in a campaign that Pakistani authorities say is necessary for national security but that critics […]

India is developing a new strategy to boost its defense exports, offering long-term, low-cost loans through its state-owned Export-Import Bank to foreign buyers, including those traditionally reliant on Russian arms, Reuters reported on April 16, citing officials familiar with the plan. As global demand for military equipment rises, New Delhi aims to position itself as a low-cost, alternative supplier. The […]

An April 10, 2025, report indicated that no suspect movement of any LWE (Left-Wing Extremist) cadres was noticed during a combing operation in the forest areas in Wayanad (Kerala). A three-day joint combing operation, ‘Operation Safe Forest’ was organized by the Tamil Nadu Police in the tri-junction forest areas across Wayanad (Kerala), Chamarajanagar (Karnataka) and the Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu), with […]

China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United States and its allies in the event of war, a new report says. The projects appeared civilian in nature but were in reality “strategic nodes” stretching about […]

For decades, Communist China’s spies, hackers and businessmen have feasted on the forced transfer of technology from vulnerable US corporate enterprises drawn to the vast Chinese market. Little has been accomplished to reduce this massive theft of intellectual property. US businesses seem to have resigned themselves to such unfair practices as the price of doing business in China. In the […]

When Donald Trump pulled back on his plan to impose eye-watering tariffs on trading partners across the world, there was one key exception: China. While the rest of the world would be given a 90-day reprieve on additional duties beyond the new 10% tariffs on all U.S. trade partners, China would feel the squeeze even more. On April 9, 2025, […]

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing Tamil Nadu, the last bastion of secularism in India. This south Indian State is the only one in the country to have consistently and successfully resisted the BJP’s Hindu majoritarian communalism and its anti-federal centralising policies. In the last decade, the BJP has spread its tentacles in Eastern, Northern, Western and […]