Tag: Belt and Road Initiative
Pakistan-India standoff: The role of Israel, US and Beyond – Part-II
Sabtain Ahmed Dar | The Iranian Connection Foreign Minister of Pakistan Qureshi was in contact with Iranian FM Jawad Zarif. Pakistan asked for Iranian help...
Players’ Skewed Maps complicate Eurasia’s 21st Century Great Game – Dr....
Dr. James M Dorsey | The United States and China are playing Eurasia’s 21st-century Great Game from different but equally skewed maps. While the US...
Shaping the new world order: The battle for human rights –...
Dr. James M. Dorsey | China is leading the charge in a bid to undermine accepted concepts of human rights accountability and justice. The Chinese...
India desperately trying to mend fences with China: But why?
M K Bhadrakumar | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hurried 36-hour visit to Singapore to attend the 13th East Asia Summit, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and...
Pakistan’s AMAN 2019: “Together for Peace”
S M Hali | Pakistan Navy is organizing a multi-nation naval exercise in the North Arabian Sea in February 2019. This is the sixth exercise...
FM Qureshi arrives in Russia vis-à-vis Afghan dialogue process
News Analysis | Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi has reached Russia– the last stop of the four-nation tour– today (Wednesday, Dec 26) to...
US troop withdrawals threaten to fuel greater, potentially problematic Gulf assertiveness...
James M. Dorsey | As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Donald J. Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and...
India’s endorsement of US led regional order
Bhakhtawar Liaquat | Introduction Lord Palmerston of great Brittan said that ‘there is no permanent friends and permanent foe in international relations but only permanent interest’...
India: The ‘troublemaker’ in South Asia – Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as its flagship project, have connected Pakistan...
BRI: Responses of the US and EU
Haseeb-Ur-Rehman & Dr. Farwa Sial | In contrast to other development funds and economic corridors, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is distinct in its...
Should India join CPEC? – M K Bhadrakumar
M K Bhadrakumar | A whispering campaign’ has been going on that CPEC is fated to put an intolerable burden on Pakistan’s debt repayment liabilities,...
Khashoggi crisis highlights why investment in Asia is more productive than...
James M. Dorsey | Growing Western political and corporate reluctance to be associated with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the suspected killing of journalist...
Pakistan: New approach needed for leveraging international financial resources
Haroon Sharif | Pakistan has had a long history of engaging with international financial institutions (IFIs) including the multilateral banks, IMF, UN agencies, bi-lateral aid...
Securing Xinjiang: China adds security component to belt and road initiative
James M Dorsey | China appears to be shifting gears in its multi-billion dollar Belt and Road initiative. Long projected as driven by economics and...
Geopolitics and geo-economics of belt and road
Babar Zehri | The key Chinese foreign policy-makers, including the whole standing committee of the politburo, summoned a landmark conference dedicated to ‘Peripheral Diplomacy’. It...
Great Powers strategic competition in Indo-Pacific region
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The convergence of Americans and Indians strategic interest not only endure Washington’s decisive role in the Indo-Pacific region but also strengthen...
Pakistan and Iran keen to promote trading ties despite tensions
News Analysis | Iran's envoy to Pakistan, Mr. Mehdi Honardoost has said that efforts are being made to strengthen bilateral trade relations with Pakistan. The ambassador...
More American troops will not solve the Afghan quagmire
Rupert Stone | Afghanistan is back in the headlines. The 16-year US-led war – which began as a response to the attacks of September 11,...
Will OBOR help China to overcome its economic crisis?
China caught the world’s eyes with its high-profile global forum on the so-called Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing on 14-15 May 2017. The developmental blueprint,...
How Putin intends to jump on the OBOR bandwagon
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Russia has not been a significant beneficiary so far of the Chinese honeypot known as Belt and Road Initiative – although...
