The spokesperson for the Supreme Court, Abdul Rahim Rashid, on Saturday issued a statement in response to remarks by the United Nations Human Rights Office, stating that no foreign authority has the right to interfere in the Sharia, religion, or judicial system of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). The UN Human Rights Office had earlier described the implementation of […]

President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped […]

China’s latest round of military drills around Taiwan has once again drawn attention to one of the most consequential unknowns in global security: if Beijing invades, would U.S. President Donald Trump try to stop it? China’s Warning Shots and Taiwan’s Place Last week, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command conducted two days of exercises around Taiwan, describing them as a […]

Introduction: China sees South Asia as its immediate neighborhood and a zone of influence. The rise of China is altering the traditional international norms and systems. Bangladesh’s geopolitical location dictates her foreign policy makers to treat India as a significant player in the South Asia. However, South Asia on the eve of the 1971 Bangladesh Crisis was “an area of […]

Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might […]

Dans le silence assourdissant de nos médias, la Bosnie plonge rapidement vers la guerre. Une guerre civile entre les trois groupes – Serbes orthodoxes, Croates catholiques et Bosniaques, soit des musulmans serbes – qui la composent. Ou plutôt, qui composent la fédération la plus improbable et la plus préoccupante pour son instabilité, de l’histoire récente. Les Bosniaques et les Croates […]

Le conflit sino-indien révélé par l’accord de libre-échange entre l’Inde et la Nouvelle-Zélande Il n’est plus communément admis qu’il existe un abîme historique intense entre l’Inde et la Chine. Ce conflit entre deux vastes blocs de civilisation mondiale a été occulté depuis la création du groupe BRIC, comme il a été initialement appelé, lors d’un sommet intergouvernemental entre le Brésil, […]

Poutine se rendra bientôt en Inde pour renforcer les liens entre les deux pays. La date de la visite n’a pas encore été indiquée, mais le voyage a été confirmé par Lavrov. De plus, New Delhi a toujours ignoré les sanctions occidentales contre la Russie et a continué d’acheter du gaz et du pétrole, obtenant des réductions qui ont augmenté […]

The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, and—if necessary—defeat the People’s Liberation […]

An F-35A Lightning II made a precautionary landing at Kadena Air Base on Thursday, according to the Okinawa Defense Bureau. The bureau made visual inspection and reported emergency vehicles gathered around the fighter jet at 11:55 a.m. following the landing, a bureau spokesman said by phone Thursday. The area defense bureau is an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense. The […]