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The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America. Reading various accounts of Yahya Sinwar’s...
Given its murderous attacks on UN staff in Gaza and declaration of its chief as ‘persona non grata’, it’s about time to invoke Article 6 of the...
To appreciate the true magnitude of its disgrace, imagine the response if murdered Gazan journalist Hassan Hamad were an Uygur or a Tibetan. ...
Launching Cold War 2.0 against a reluctant Beijing while enabling Israel to set fire to an entire region is now official American foreign policy. ...
The world doesn’t see an “indispensable nation” in America, only one that is ‘dysfunctional at home and pursuing naked self-interest abroad’...
Zionism has followed the twisted logic of a long line of modern ideologies that ended up committing mass murder. On the day when crime puts on the...
Mutual economic quandaries as both try to reshape their economies may force the two bitter rivals to learn to live with each other again. All is...
As with Washington’s routine attempts to challenge all things Chinese as well as global multilateral agencies, its row with the World Anti-Doping...
US operations exploiting foreign vaccine programmes have time and again caused untold damage to the public health of countries targeted. Speaking...
It makes sense for Beijing to expand the services sector, but none for the US to transfer higher productivity in services to lower one in...
Divide and conquer, well-honed in Middle East and Latin America over decades, is being applied to only real growth engine of world economy. A...
Without naming names, a joint statement by 93 countries in a show of support for the International Criminal Court is an unmistakable rebuke of the...
The island’s current political status is as good as it gets, and any further military partnership with Washington will deliver only diminishing...
The complaint by Canberra about the latest Chinese military flare-up close to China’s coast is not only hypocritical but highly escalatory. An...
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous...
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land. Was China ever an...
The US State Department’s No 2 now admits the AUKUS joint submarine project between three of the Five Eyes is tied to Taiwan and mainland China. ...
After the battles over 5G, social media and advanced microchips, Chinese electric cars are the new front line of US economic warfare. Like any...
The danger Hong Kong faces is not that it might become ‘just another mainland city’, but that it is already subpar to many of its urban cousins...
China’s contrasting political repression and economic development in Tibet and Xinjiang does not hold a candle to US-sponsored state terrorism by...
Now we know how racial mass murders are committed by watching one live on our computer and TV screens. We live in an upside down world. Countries...
Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West. After criticising...
On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructure around the world while the US is...
John Mearsheimer, in an interview, also argues South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel before the ICJ will further isolate the Jewish state...
China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque. ...
In politics, there is often no reward, only penalty, for being right, especially when you go against the messaging of the ruling elites. Gonzalo...
The US has become a more dangerous nation and Donald 2.0, with his instinctive aversion to war, may even be less threatening to the world. Joe...
Is Lai guilty or not? I have no idea. It’s not my job to decide or guess. Let the trial judge decide.I am an old-fashioned hack and prefer the...
The US has been ruthlessly militarising what some Pentagon strategists have called the island chains of defence in the Indo-Pacific with quiet ‘Five...