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
The government in Islamabad is under strain as it attempts to manage a sensitive regional environment through a dual-track foreign policy: maintaining active engagement with Saudi Arabia while simultaneously deepening high-level outreach
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India’s rise on the global stage is no longer debated. Over the past decade, New Delhi has steadily positioned itself as a consequential actor combining economic ambition with expanding strategic reach. Its
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Political debates about democracy often focus on culture, leadership, or polarization. But history points to a more prosaic—and more powerful—driver of political outcomes: how governments raise revenue. Across thousands of years of
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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In a small village in Haryana, a mother’s grief has become a stark symbol of a much larger national crisis. “My son wanted to become a wrestler. How does a liver collapse
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Goldman Sachs suffered significant setbacks in its fixed-income trading business after being caught off guard by the market turmoil triggered by the Iran war, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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The conventional wisdom was that a destabilizing war in the oil-producing heart of the Middle East would badly hurt China, the world’s leading oil importer, and its sputtering economy. It hasn’t worked
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In Balochistan, disappearance has become more than an allegation. It has become a method of rule, a language of fear, and, for many families, the most intimate face of the Pakistani state.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has issued a stark warning about the state of global politics, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of reckless behavior and declaring that no leader “has
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It is necessary to revive the vital issue of national security, suppressed—presumably at the behest of the government—by former COAS Gen. M. M. Naravane’s declaration on February 10 that his controversial book
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