The great COVID-19 coverup

NEW DELHI – As the pandemic enters its third year, questions about COVID-19’s origins appear increasingly distant. But if we are to forestall...

The Great COVID Coverup

The Quad needs an economic pillar to stand on

Four nation grouping needs to focus on more security to maintain relevance

Beijing turns to hybrid ‘lawfare’ to expand its borders

NEW DELHI – As the world’s largest, strongest and longest-surviving dictatorial one-party-governed nation, contemporary China lacks the rule of...

Xi's nuclear frenzy aimed at shielding China's expansionism

Weapons buildup casts doubt on whether U.S. can defend Taiwan

China's Global Hybrid War

NEW DELHI – As the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-surviving dictatorship, contemporary China lacks the rule of law. Yet it is...

Taliban turning Afghanistan into narco-terrorist state

NEW DELHI – The strategic folly of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under...

China's bullying of tiny Bhutan risks South Asian stability

David and Goliath struggle exposes Beijing's expansionist intent

The Narco-Terrorist Taliban

NEW DELHI – The strategic folly of US President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under...

The steadily increasing risk of war between China and India

Beijing's use of domestic law underpins its international expansionism

Why the U.S. let Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan off the hook

Decision could still come back to haunt Washington

Defending Taiwan means ensuring world peace

NEW DELHI – China’s coercive expansionism may be taking its most dangerous turn yet. Recently, record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes...

Saving Taiwan

NEW DELHI – China’s coercive expansionism may be taking its most dangerous turn yet. Recently, record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes...

Biden shifts to a more conciliatory approach toward China

In the recent words of U.S. President Joe Biden, the world stands “at an inflection point in history.” At stake is the future of the world order,...

Helping the Taliban but not Myanmar detrimental to Western interests

Naypyitaw's generals treated as bigger threat than the terrorists controlling Kabul

A crippling blow to the global ‘war on terror’

NEW DELHI – The American-led global “war on terror,” launched 20 years ago after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, was...

A Crippling Blow to the Global War on Terror

NEW DELHI – The American-led global war on terror, launched 20 years ago after the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, was...

Biden's Afghanistan fiasco is a disaster for Asia

Self-inflicted defeat sends message that allies cannot count on US

Biden has only himself to blame for the Taliban’s victory

When an aging U.S. president, refusing to consider the conditions on the ground, overrules his military generals and intelligence agencies and orders...

Pax Americana Died in Kabul

NEW DELHI — The terrorist takeover of Afghanistan, following President Joe Biden’s precipitous and bungling military exit, has brought an ignoble...

Can Japan really trust America?

Taiwan tensions underscore Tokyo's growing sense of insecurity

The great COVID-19 stonewall of China

NEW DELHI – COVID-19 has now been with us for more than a year and a half. It has stopped societies in their tracks, triggered sharp economic...

The Great COVID Stonewall of China

NEW DELHI – COVID-19 has now been with us for more than a year and a half. It has stopped societies in their tracks, triggered sharp economic...

Xi opens a Pandora’s box with antagonism of India

Xi Jinping’s secrecy-shrouded, July 21 to 23 visit to Tibet — the first officially acknowledged trip to the politically troubled “roof of the...

Xi opens a Pandora’s box with antagonism of India

Xi Jinping’s secrecy-shrouded, July 21 to 23 visit to Tibet — the first officially acknowledged trip to the politically troubled “roof of the...

China moves swiftly to exploit the void in Afghanistan

US military exit is likely to become Beijing's strategic gain

Biden’s Afghan blunder

NEW DELHI – Afghanistan is on the brink of catastrophe and it is U.S. President Joe Biden’s fault. By overruling America’s top generals and...

Biden’s Afghan Blunder

NEW DELHI – Afghanistan is on the brink of catastrophe, and it is US President Joe Biden’s fault. By overruling America’s top generals and...

China's hostility ensures the rise of a more antagonistic India

Military standoffs along the Himalayan border continue to intensify

With massive dams, China finds a weapon in water

NEW DELHI – On July 1, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will stage a patriotic extravaganza to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding....

One Hundred Years of Devastation

NEW DELHI – On July 1, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will stage a patriotic extravaganza to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding....

China must come clean on the origins of COVID-19

Wuhan lab leak theory needs to be fully explored

Did China avoid blame for causing the pandemic?

The ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic are evident in countries around the globe more so than in the nation of its birth — with China ranking among...

China rubs its hands amid international divide over Myanmar

Punitive sanctions policies should be recalibrated