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25 May 2024

Teesta River Project Pushes Bangladesh Into China-India Cold War

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Kamal Uddin Mazumder Source Link Bangladesh faces a delicate diplomatic dilemma as it navigates competing interests from India and China in ...

Understanding India’s Evolving Middle Classes – Analysis

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Sandhya Krishnan Source Link India’s middle class first emerged in the early 19th century, when British policies gave rise to a small group ...

Pakistan Should Reconsider Forced Repatriation Of Afghan Refugees – OpEd

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Dr. Ajmal Shams Source Link Many Afghan refugees have been living in Pakistan for more than four decades. The Afghan’s mass migration to nei...

Asian defence spending grows, China’s grows more

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Fenella McGerty Source Link Asian defence spending will continue to grow in 2024, but China still outpaces the rest of the region. According...

The U.S. Military Needs A Better China ‘Messaging’ Strategy

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Justin Woodward Source Link Getting the Messaging Right Around the China Challenge: The U.S. Military’s Dilemma China is not our enemy. The ...

East meets middle: China’s blossoming relationship with Saudi Arabia and the UAE

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Camille Lons Source Link The image of Chinese leader Xi Jinping presiding over an important diplomatic breakthrough between arch-rivals Sau...

More Than 700,000 Tibetans Forced To Relocate

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Tenzin Dickyi, Lobsang, Dorjee Damdul and Pelbar Source Link For the past seven years, Tashi and his once-nomadic family have been living in...

The Death of an Iranian Hard-Liner

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Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar Source Link The sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in helicopter crash on May 19 marked a momentous ...

The Death of Iran’s President Could Change the Worl

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John Ghazvinian Source Link The uncertainty ushered in by the death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash, just weeks af...

The ICC’s threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israe

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Source Link It had been been expected in Israel for weeks, but was still a shock when it came. On May 20th the prosecutor for the Internatio...

The Strange Resurrection of the Two-State Solution

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Martin Indyk Source Link For years, the vision of an Israeli state and a Palestinian state existing side by side in peace and security has b...

Behind scenes of Israel-Saudi deal, Pentagon works Arab air defense shiel

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Jared Szuba Source Link As the Biden administration touts a bilateral deal with Saudi Arabia linked to a historic normalization with Israel...

The Arab League's Perpetual Dilemma | Opinion

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Ryan Bohl Source Link Founded in 1945, the Arab League has always aimed for pan-national aspirations, regional coordination, and peace. How...

The US has spent $5bn on electronic warfare in 2024 alone

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Alex Blair Source Link The US Air Force has been a leading adopter of electronic warfare technology including BAE Systems’ Eagle Passive Act...

Inside the White House, a Debate Over Letting Ukraine Shoot U.S. Weapons Into Russia

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David E. Sanger Source Link Since the first American shipments of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has never wavered on one...

The Failure of Israel’s “Strategy” in Gaza Continues

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Amir Asmar Source Link Despite decades of demonstrated failure of military operations to achieve Israeli security, Israel continues to prior...

Can America’s Special Relationship With Israel Survive?

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Dahlia Scheindlin Source Link On May 8, the Biden administration confirmed that it was withholding a major weapons shipment to the Israel De...

The British Prime Minister Bowed to the Inevitable

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Helen Lewis Source Link Please read this as classic British understatement: Today was not, on the face of it, an ideal time for Rishi Sunak ...

Europe’s Invisible Provinces

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Marie Hyland, Massimiliano Mascherini, and Michele Lamont Source Link From late 2023 until the spring of 2024, farmers across Europe flooded...

Israel Is Succeeding in Gaza

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ANDREW FOX Source Link As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducts another assault in the north of Gaza, they face significant criticism fro...

Coming of age? European defence engagement in the Indo-Pacific

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Ben Schreer Source Link In recent years, several European states have stepped up their defence engagement in the Indo-Pacific. France and th...

U.S. Says Historic Israel-Saudi Normalization Deal Within Reach but Israel Might Balk

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Gordon Lubold and Michael R. Gordon Source Link Biden administration officials said Tuesday that a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations...

Ukraine Needs More Than Crisis Management

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Eric Ciaramella Source Link The U.S. Congress’s approval last month of a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine came not a minute too soon. Amm...

Are PSYOPS in Cyberspace a Viable Tool Against Adversaries?

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EMILIO IASIELLO Source Link The former Cybersecurity Director illustrated the point with LockBit, perhaps the most prominent and active rans...

The Funan Techo Canal Won’t Have A Military Purpose

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David Hutt Source Link Earlier this month, I wrote a column for Radio Free Asia (“ The Funan Techo Canal won’t end Cambodia’s dependency on ...
24 May 2024

India and Chabahar: Navigating the Tides of US Sanctions

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Namita Barthwal Source Link On May 13, Indian Ports Global Ltd. (IPGL) and the Port and Maritime Organization (PMO) of Iran signed a 10-year...

Senior Study Group on Counterterrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Final Report

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Source Link Executive Summary When announcing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in April 2021, President Joe Biden identified counterterror...

Manila-Beijing Row Worsens As China Yet To Show Evidence Of ‘Secret Deal’ – Analysis

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Camille Elemia Source Link Manila’s row with Beijing has worsened in recent weeks, as China insists that the Philippines has violated their ...

South Asian Students Targeted by Angry Mob in Kyrgyz Capital

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Catherine Putz Source Link On May 17 , a video started to circulate on Kyrgyz social media depicting a fight between “foreigners” and Kyrgyz...

Britain Accuses China Of Working To Provide Russia With ‘Lethal Aid’

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Reid Standish Source Link Britain has accused China of preparing to or already providing ‘lethal aid’ to Russia for its ongoing full-scale i...

Tracking China’s Moves On Information Warfare – Analysis

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Kalpit A Mankikar and Satyam Singh Source Link The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is shifting focus to improving logistical elements that ac...

China’s Gray-Zone Tactics Come to America

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Denny Roy Source Link China employs various “gray zone” tactics—moderately aggressive actions that are not egregious enough to provoke conve...

Who Is Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s New Foreign Minister – OpEd

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Palestine Chronicle Source Link Ali Bagheri Kani played a prominent role in the negotiations with Western powers, rising to become a pillar ...

The Iranian Nuclear Strategy—Is It About to Change?

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Sima Shine & Raz Zimmt Source Link In recent months, as Iran has approached the nuclear threshold and shortened the times for producing ...

US Allies Recognize Palestine as a State

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Khaleda Rahman Source Link In a historic and co-ordinated move, Ireland, Spain and Norway announced they would recognize a Palestinian state...