Many eminent international investors and analysts are warning that China is going to be the ultimate and largest trigger for the next global financial crisis, “a crisis that will be deeper and last longer than the first one that governments quickly combatted with unprecedented quantitative easing and bailouts”.
Xi Rattles Nerves Across Region by Urging Faster Weapons Development
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged faster development of advanced new military equipment to help build a strong army, state media reported, as the country steps up an ambitious modernisation […]
Nuclear-Capable Agni-IV Test-Fired Successfully
The test is a boost to India’s missile development programme and will bring India closer to achieving a credible deterrence as far as China is concerned says Dr Roshan
ISIS Creating Nexus of Global Terror by Issuing Pledges of Allegiance Online
Both Al-Qaeda and the ISIS avowedly belong to the Salafi sect of Sunni Islam. However, the most distinguishing tenet of this sectarian ideology is its insistence against ‘innovation’ (bidaah) in […]
Neo-Ottomanism in Tatters
Turkey’s self-righteous grandstanding is isolating it internationally, writes Dr. Adil Rasheed, Senior Research Fellow (West Asia Asia) at the Center for Strategic Studies and Simulation, USI.
Europe Searching for ‘Grand Strategy’ to Forge Partnerships with Rising Asian Powers
In economic doldrums, Europe is searching for a new strategy to re-establish its preeminence on the geopolitical stage. Amid a resurgent Russia, a rising China and an America pivoting towards Asia, […]