Clearing The Air Around CPEC By Ikram Sehgal
The One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative launched by China’s Xi Jinping aims to recreate the legendary Silk Road. A …
Read MoreXiplomacy: President Xi’s Foreign Policy By Khurram Minhas
Over the past five years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited many parts of the world. From Asia to Europe, …
Read MoreWith US Closing its Doors to the World, China is Happy to Step in as the New superpower By Wahab Butt
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the previously followed world order is now changing. The post-Cold War world is gone. …
Read MoreWill China’s SCO fix Asia’s Problems? By Huma Rehman
The Central and South Asian region has been labelled the most fragile region in the world, presenting similar patterns of …
Read MoreDriving The World Towards a Trade War By Shahid Javed Burki
In its 1993 report on what it called East Asia’s “miracle economies,” the World Bank identified two reasons for the …
Read MoreTrilateral Approach | Editorial
A new way to resolve Pak-India disputes The Chinese envoy to New Delhi has launched the idea of a trilateral …
Read MoreChina and US — Playing tit for tat By Ali Salman Andani
Finally, White House has confirmed the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion worth of imports from China. China …
Read MoreCPEC: Beyond Infrastructure By Hasaan Khawar
Recently, I came across a very interesting research undertaken by a private sector firm that ranked the 67 Belt and …
Read MoreChina Takes The Initiative | Editorial
It is becoming ever clearer that the relationship between Pakistan and China stretches far beyond the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) …
Read MoreChina Offers Trilateral Talks For Indo-Pak Peace By Mian Abrar
Xi tells Modi Pakistan is ‘ready to resume talks’ with India ISLAMABAD: China has conveyed India a message of peace …
Read MorePak-Afghan, Sino-India Détente? New Dynamism Sweeping Asia By Imtiaz Gul
Asia – from East to the West – is in the grip of intense diplomatic activity. The Army Chief Gen. …
Read MoreThe ‘Indo-Pacific’ and Pakistan By Zamir Akram
On June 2nd, the US renamed its Pacific Command, the oldest and largest American military setup in the Asia-Pacific, as …
Read MoreSCO Summit | Editorial
Some takeaways While the heads of seven of the biggest economies in the world met in Quebec for the G7 …
Read MoreHistory’s Geopolitical Pivot By Munir Akram
IN his 1904 treatise, The Geographical Pivot of History, Halford Mackinder theorised that whoever controls the Eurasian heartland — from …
Read MoreChina Wants Better Indo-Pak Ties, Cooperation in SCO
Expressing hope for better bilateral ties between Pakistan and India, China has said that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) provides …
Read MoreTaming Trump’s Trade War By Abdul Sattar
After coming down hard on China, the unpredictable Donald Trump has turned his guns towards Washington’s inveterate allies in the …
Read MoreChina's Nuclear Weapons: Everything You Always Wanted to Know By Steve Weintz
With its first nuclear test on October 16, 1964, China joined the other victorious allies of World War II in …
Read MoreSCO: Ensuring Regional Peace and Connectivity By Saadat Hassan Bilal
The forthcoming Qingdao summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is likely to endorse a five-year framework for the implementation of …
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