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June 4, 2020

Drawing Battlelines: US Openly Targets China’s OBOR

Judging by US foreign policy – China is a massive global threat – and by some accounts – the “top” threat. But a threat to what? AFP would report in its article, “Trump nominee to lead intel community sees China as top threat,” that: President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US intelligence community said Tuesday that he would focus...

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February 12, 2020

US Rolls Out New Central Asia Strategy

Every five to six years, roughly, the United States comes out with a ‘new’ Central Asia strategy. The Indian automobile industry might call it “facelift” — cosmetic changes to create an air of novelty, such as a new radiator grill, a tweak in the rear bumper, exciting colour options and so on. The document titled United States Strategy for Central...

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January 21, 2020

Afro-Eurasia Would Be a Timely Alternative to the Indo-Pacific

Russia’s repeated rejection of the US’ ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept that Foreign Minister Lavrov claims is a ruse for “containing China” highlights just how urgently it is that a more inclusive and non-hostile trans-regional integration alternative emerges, which can be embodied by the Afro-Eurasia proposal that brings together the Belt & Road Initiative, CPEC+, and the Greater Eurasian Partnership in a Community...

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January 21, 2020

Battle of the Ages to Stop Eurasian Integration

The Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani. Yet a bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Every game-changing act in geopolitics and geoeconomics in the...

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November 12, 2019

China’s Vision for the Future: “Give Peace a Chance”

China’s vision for the future is “Give Peace a Chance”. It is also the title of one of John Lennon’s most prominent songs. It became the anthem for the anti-war movement, at the time of the US-waged war against Vietnam. John Lennon was a peace activist. No wonder he was ostracized, considered enemy number one by the US establishment, was followed...

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June 1, 2019

What is Behind Canada’s Poisoned Relationship with China?

Watching Canada’s behaviour to China over the past several months has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion, and one could not be blamed for coming to the conclusion that this display of consistent diplomatic incompetence on the part of Canadian policy makers was intentional. Believe it or not, but efforts were being made by Canada’s government to...

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April 30, 2019

Interpreting President Putin’s Speech at the 2019 BRI Forum

President Putin left nothing to doubt when he proudly proclaimed that Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union regional integration organization that it leads are strategically merging with China and its Belt & Road Initiative, with this process having unprecedentedly far-reaching strategic consequences for the supercontinent and 21st-century geopolitics as a whole. This year’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Forum is...

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April 28, 2019

Sri Lanka Blasts: Terrorism Targets Another Chinese Ally

The recent, tragic Easter attack in the South Asian state of Sri Lanka – killing and injuring hundreds – follows a now unfortunately all too familiar formula. The New York Times has reported in its article, “What We Know and Don’t Know About the Sri Lanka Attacks,” that: The authorities in Sri Lanka said a little-known radical Islamist group, the...

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Tag: OBOR

Drawing Battlelines: US Openly Targets China’s OBOR

US Rolls Out New Central Asia Strategy

Afro-Eurasia Would Be a Timely Alternative to the Indo-Pacific

Battle of the Ages to Stop Eurasian Integration

China’s Vision for the Future: “Give Peace a Chance”

What is Behind Canada’s Poisoned Relationship with China?

Interpreting President Putin’s Speech at the 2019 BRI Forum

Sri Lanka Blasts: Terrorism Targets Another Chinese Ally