Indian Media Is Spreading Fake News About a Russian-Chinese Rivalry in Mali

Indian Media Is Spreading Fake News About a Russian-Chinese Rivalry in Mali

“The Frustrated Indian”, a popular Indian media outlet with over 1.2 million followers on Facebook, is propagating fake news by alleging that the recent military coup in Mali was a Russian-backed regime change effort to spoil China’s Silk Road plans in the Sahel, which represents yet another desperate and discredited effort by the South Asian…

US-China Game of Chicken in the South China Sea Does Nothing to Solve the Dispute

US-China Game of Chicken in the South China Sea Does Nothing to Solve the Dispute

As Washington and Beijing continue to spar over the latter’s assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea, the war of words has the two nations lurching ever closer to an actual shooting war, with all that will entail. The dispute has escalated in the past days and weeks, with the US slapping sanctions…