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4 September 2018

Indian Engagement with Afghanistan: An Economic Perspective

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Source Link … Indian assistance in Afghanistan is focused on, ‘Afghan led, Afghan owned and controlled,’ projects … India’s Small Deve...

India Is Getting Cold Feet About Trump’s America

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BY ATMAN TRIVEDI, APARNA PANDE Source Link On the 2016 campaign trail, now-U.S. President Donald Trump assured an Indian-American a...

What’s Wrong With the US Afghanistan Strategy?

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By Kashif Hussain Source Link The United States’ Afghanistan-centric South Asia strategy aimed at outlining a plan for victory in ...

Can Russia End the War in Afghanistan?

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By  Samuel Ramani Source Link On August 27, Mohammed Jawed Hejri, a senior official in Afghanistan’s Takhar province, alleged th...

The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Brings Along the Same Stale Ideas

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by Sophia Larson Source Link As the anniversary of the September 11 attacks draws near, the Afghanistan War—the nearly seventeen-yea...

Muslim Governments Silent as China Cracks Down on Uighurs

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Source Link As calls grow in the U.S. and Europe to pressure China to halt alleged human-rights abuses against its Muslim minority, Be...

Does China Have What It Takes to Be a Superpower?

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B y Marc Champion and Adrian Leung Source Link As the U.S. well knows, it’s expensive to be a superpower. The costs of maintaining a...

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says the US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure

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Jay Yarow  Source Link Alibaba founder Jack Ma fired a shot at the United States in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Da...

Interview: Leta Hong Fincher

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By Shannon Tiezzi Source Link In 2018, the #MeToo movement erupted on Chinese social media, with women standing up to accuse promine...

Can China Burnish Its Image in South Africa?

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By Samuel Ramani Source Link On August 24, Major General Shao Yuanming, the deputy chief of staff of China’s Central Military Comm...

China Declared Islam a Contagious Disease – and Quarantined 1 Million Muslims

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By Eric Levitz Source Link China is among the most ethnically homogeneous large countries in the world, with Han Chinese accounting ...

Muslim Governments Silent as China Cracks Down on Uighurs

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Source Link As calls grow in the U.S. and Europe to pressure China to halt alleged human-rights abuses against its Muslim minority, Be...

Oman Will Bend, But Not Break, From Gulf Pressure

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Source Link Oman has long maintained a neutral posture in Persian Gulf disputes, but the country has to work hard to avoid taking side...

Facing Syria and Russia, UN prepares to prove the impotence of its "soft power"

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Source Link by Tom Rogan The only real utility of the United Nations lies in its facilitation of dialogue and its ideal location in ...

Europe Could Miss Its Opportunity for Political Realignment

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Source Link JEAN PISANI-FERRY Will the continent’s voters be offered the opportunity to decide on the key challenges their societies...

The Belt and Road in Europe: 5 Years Later

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By Nadège Rolland Source Link This fall will mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of what is now called in English the Belt an...

Is Mattis Next Out the Door?

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By FRED KAPLAN Source Link It looks like Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis may be next in line to get the boot for disloyalty to Presi...

U.S. Foreign Policy John McCain and the Meaning of Courage

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By H. R. McMaster Source Link   Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian philosopher of war, wrote in the early nineteenth century that “co...

The shale gas challenge

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Shashikant Yadav,  M.P. Ram Mohan Source Link On August 1, 2018, the Central government approved a far-reaching policy that allows...

No Ecosystem on Earth Is Safe From Climate Change

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ROBINSON MEYER Source Link If climate change continues unabated, nearly every ecosystem on the planet would alter dramatically, to t...

This Is How Russian Propaganda Actually Works In The 21st Century

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Holger Roonemaa Source Link TALLINN, Estonia — The Russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news webs...

Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

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Source Link By  William J. Broad Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain da...

Russia’s new Spectrum EW system enters service

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Source Link The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on 28 August that a new electronic warfare (EW) system, designated Spectrum, ha...

How the Air Force data strategy is evolving

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Source Link By: Valerie Insinna The Air Force’s ambitious new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance strategy calls for a sen...

How the Air Force data strategy is evolving

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By: Valerie Insinna Source Link The Air Force’s ambitious new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance strategy calls for a sens...

How Does the Blockchain Work?

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Michele D'Aliessi Source Link Blockchain technology is probably the best invention since the internet itself. It allows value ex...

Exclusive: U.S. accuses China of 'super aggressive' spy campaign on LinkedIn

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Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay Source Link WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies...

German Cabinet approves new cybersecurity agency

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By: Sebastian Sprenger  Source Link COLOGNE, Germany – Germany is one step closer to getting its own version of a Defense Advanced Re...

The elements that make security an enabler rather than a hindrance

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By: Dan Conrad  Source Link The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking action to improve its authentication practices. Agency l...

RAND: The United States Air Force Is Too Small

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By Dave Majumdar Source Link The United States Air Force is too small to meet the security challenges that meet the nation, a new st...
3 September 2018

India’s Island Diplomacy: Building an Indian Ocean Security Architecture

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By Arunima Gupta Source Link With global power dynamics shifting from West to East, regional powers, namely China and India, have ...

Addressing FATF's concerns is in Pakistan's own best interest: Finance Minister Asad Umar

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Source Link Newly appointed Finance Minister Asad Umar on Friday told the Senate that addressing the deficiencies identified by the Fi...

Farcical Elections in Maldives with a Tyrant in-charge!

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By R.M. Panda Source Link A tyrant President who has put in every possible contestant in jail or driven into exile- a person accused...

The Crackdown on Uighurs Has Been China’s Worst-Kept Secret for Years

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Benjamin Wilhelm Source Link Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, WPR’s newsletter and engagement editor, Benjamin Wilhelm, curates the t...

Strategic implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative too big to ignore

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James Bowen Source Link Now five years into its existence, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to be attracting both ne...