Trump Offloads Foreign Policy Problems – Lets EU Grow a Spine

Trump Offloads Foreign Policy Problems – Lets EU Grow a Spine

The U.S. is more and more isolated in international politics and even Europe is growing some spine and implements an independent foreign policy. U.S. imperialists are miffed but can do little about it. This development may well be part of Trump’s plan of “Making America Great Again”. After Trump declared that the U.S. sees Jerusalem…

From ‘Russian Meddling’ to Iran Regime Change: Social Media as Tools of US Policy

From ‘Russian Meddling’ to Iran Regime Change: Social Media as Tools of US Policy

As US-based social media companies crack down on dissent at home in the name of fighting phantom ‘Russian meddling,’ Washington seeks to leverage them for regime change in places like Iran. If social media platform Twitter can ban German politicians for incitement (of race hate), then why doesn’t it apply the same sanction on President…

Trump Beware: Pakistan’s Luck Playing China Card Is Turning

Trump Beware: Pakistan’s Luck Playing China Card Is Turning

At the lowest ebb of the last annus horribilis for US-Pakistan ties in 2011, soon after the special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan brandished the China card: if relations with Washington were going into a tailspin, Islamabad would turn to Beijing instead. They were rebuffed. China discreetly made it clear…

US Suspending Aid to Pakistan Benefits China and Russia

US Suspending Aid to Pakistan Benefits China and Russia

US geopolitics is unacceptably hostile. On Thursday, the State Department “placed Pakistan on a Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom.” A nation at war with Islam at home and abroad outrageously accused the country of religious violations – instead of taking steps to clean up its own vile agenda. Separately on Thursday,…

China Mediatecs Between Pakistan and Afghanistan

China Mediatecs Between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Seeking to bridge the divide between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the second China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ trilateral dialogue took place recently. Promoting regional integration, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed, “China and Pakistan are willing to look at with Afghanistan, on the basis of win-win, mutually beneficial principles, using an appropriate means to extend the China-Pakistan Economic…