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Indian Navy benefits from Pentagon paranoia over China1
US government in a hurry to get new sub-hunting helicopters into the hands of the Indian Navy by Dave Makichuk May 20, 2020 To say the Pentagon is concerned about China’s military expansion would be an understatement — just ask the Indian Navy. According to a report by Paul McLeary for Breaking Defense, the US
READ MORECovid-19 tilts the future toward Asia1
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- May 18, 2020
Asia returns to work while America struggles to regain its footing in what looks like a historical tipping point by Scott Foster May 14, 2020 Test and you will find not only more Covid-19 infections but also so wide a gap between successful responses to the virus in East Asia and catastrophic ones in the
READ MOREWhy East beat West on Covid-190
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- May 16, 2020
East Asia has handled and contained the pandemic far better than the West on nearly all metrics by Andrew Salmon May 15, 2020 Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease’s impact. The chasm is visible
READ MORECovid-19 threatens to spark biodefense arms race0
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- May 12, 2020
A new regulatory framework is desperately needed to address emerging biotech dual-use challenges by Christina Lin May 12, 2020 Last month the Donald Trump administration cut US National Institute of Health (NIH) funding to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, the laboratory now embroiled in controversy over the origin of Covid-19. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance,
READ MOREReligious tension in India0
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- April 22, 2020
Indian writer Arundhati Roy accused the Indian government of using social unrest during the coronavirus crisis to encourage “genocidal” behavior toward Muslims. Many political experts say Roy’s criticism goes too far. Speaking to DW on Friday, renowned writer Arundhati Roy was scathing in her criticism of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that the
READ MOREWhy US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan0
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- April 22, 2020
by Christina Lin April 22, 2020 US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump’s Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on ‘monster-germ’ research by Christina Lin April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded bat-coronavirus research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to the
READ MOREIn Pakistan, ‘great woes befall the state’0
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- April 4, 2020
Even amid a global pandemic and recession, Imran Khan’s regime is driven by petty vindictiveness by Imad Zafar March 31, 2020 Power usually makes people blind and it makes them believe that they will always remain in power, and under this delusion they start thinking of their critics and opponents as threats to their hegemony.
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Saudi Arabia to Muslims: Hold off on Hajj0
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- April 1, 2020
This year’s Hajj was meant to take place from July 28 to August 2 by Alison Tahmizian Meuse April 1, 2020 Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Hajj has called on Muslims to hold off on planning the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca while the kingdom – and the world – deals with the Covid-19 pandemic. “Dr Mohammed
READ MOREPresident Trump getting a wall in India too0
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- February 22, 2020
US President is due to visit India on February 24, but the trip may provide more optics than substance by Saikat Datta February 17, 2020February 18, 2020 Asia Times US President Donald Trump is likely to finally get a wall, but it will be coming up thousands of miles away from the US-Mexico border in
READ MORENothing official about ‘gifts’ to Bangladesh minister0
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- February 10, 2020
A key member of Sheikha Hasina’s government is embroiled in a controversy over undeclared gifts, which has shown that few officials ever hand over gifts that they receive By Faisal Mahmud Asia Times 10 February 2020 Aside from the Bangladeshi president and prime minister, very few government officials have been listing the gifts they receive
READ MOREThe changing face of Myanmar’s raging Rakhine war0
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- January 31, 2020
Photo: YouTube/Arakan Army promotional video Nation’s most volatile and fast shifting armed conflict complicates China’s Belt and Road ambitions By Anthony Davis, Bangkok 31 January 2020 Historically ethnic conflict in modern Myanmar has been a glacially slow-moving disaster, debilitating the nation’s politics while shifting only incrementally from one decade to the next. In 2019, the
READ MOREReimagining Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan0
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- January 27, 2020
By Rahim Nasar 27 January 2020 In Pakistan, agreeing on a single Pashtun-centric narrative is a major dilemma. This is where conflicts of interests and principles begin. The structural interference of powerful institutions and assurance of limited political and electoral interests make nationalist rhetoric even more troubling. As a result, young Pashtuns with political and
READ MORESri Lanka diplomatic pendulum swinging back?0
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- January 20, 2020
New interest in India, while China for years has been widening its footprint with transport projects By AT Contributor, Colombo Sri Lanka and India vowed to strengthen military ties and widen maritime links with neighbors after security talks, the president’s office said Sunday, as China’s economic clout increases in the region. China, a long-time regional
READ MOREBangladeshi lawmakers want extrajudicial killings0
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- January 20, 2020
The demand by a few parliamentarians that the police be allowed to kill rapists without a trial has led to a furious debate By Faisal Mahmud, Dhaka 20 January 2020 Extra-judicial killing is not new in Bangladesh. What is new is a campaign by elected lawmakers in Parliament to legitimize killings by the police that
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