Putin’s opening gambit in the new Great Game outfoxes Trump
Jul 18, 2017 11:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
The budding relationship between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg was the crowning image of a fractious gathering of world leaders. Yet the promise that an...
For Pakistan, China's huge energy investments may have serious political costs
Jul 14, 2017 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In Pakistan, theres no topic hotter than the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar bilateral development project that will, officials promised in 2015, usher in an era of unprecedented progress...
Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
Jul 12, 2017 18:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The first week of July is not normally one that brings great events in world politics. Around that time, the northern hemisphere normally shifts into summer holiday mode. Recently, this has become less true. Coups in...
Jul 12, 2017 08:39 am UTC| Commentary
Russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the United States that Russia is working on retaliatory measures for the closure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States that remains unresolved till date....
Jul 12, 2017 07:20 am UTC| Commentary
The United States and Qatar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at combating terrorism financing, one of the top demands made by Saudi-led Gulf nations who have diplomatically blocked Qatar and blocked...
Global Geo-political Series: U.S. State Department suggests many Qatar demands unrealistic
Jul 11, 2017 05:51 am UTC| Commentary
Diplomatic blockade of Qatar, which was initiated by four Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt has entered into its second month as the Gulf nations indicated that the blockade would...
Jul 10, 2017 07:49 am UTC| Commentary
This is the second part of the G20 article focusing on the bilateral meetings between President Trump and other world leaders. World leaders concluded the two-day meeting of the G20 on Saturday in Hamburg Germany, where...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight