Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
For more than three years, the conflict in Manipur has exposed a troubling reality at the heart of the world’s largest democracy: a state can deploy thousands of security personnel, impose curfews,
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The most consequential escalations in South Asia are no longer confined to artillery exchanges across the Line of Control or aerial confrontations between nuclear-armed rivals. Increasingly, they unfold through the manipulation of
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Across the globe, the tools of conflict are evolving. In South Asia, the erosion of the Indus Waters Treaty is transforming rivers into instruments of strategic leverage between India and Pakistan. Half
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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In an age that rewards moral certainty and viral storytelling, conflicts like Balochistan’s are increasingly flattened into stark binaries: oppressor and oppressed, state and victim, resistance and repression. These narratives travel fast,
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