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The China-India-Pakistan Triangle: China Strengthens Ties with Pakistan Amid Border Standoff with India (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

The failure of military talks in the fall to ease a one-and-half year border standoff between India and China could lead to further militarization of...

The Islamic State’s Anti-Russia Propaganda Campaign and Criticism of Taliban-Russian Relations (Lucas Webber, The Jamestown Foundation)

In his first speech following the official declaration of the Islamic State’s (IS) caliphate in 2014, the new caliph, Abubakr al-Baghdadi, delivered his famous...

Pakistani Taliban to Benefit from Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Fencing Dispute (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)

On December 18, 2021, Afghan Taliban soldiers disrupted the erection of a security fence by the Pakistani military along the two countries’ mutual border...

The Islamic State Gains New Operational Foothold in Iraq’s Hamrin Mountains (Isaac Ahmed, The Jamestown Foundation)

Diyala is located 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, and is considered a “road-knot” between four Iraqi provinces, including Diyala and Sulaymaniyah, Wasit, and Salah...

What Does Putin’s Conservatism Seek to Conserve? (Timothy Colton, Valdai Discussion Club)

Vladimir Putin is a familiar face to every Russian and to news-attentive audiences worldwide. Nonetheless, he keeps many thoughts to himself and seldom provides more than a glimpse of what goes on inside...

What’s better than 75 Abrams tanks? (Lesley Seebeck, The Strategist)

During a pandemic, some in Australia may argue that any excess defence funding should be allocated to rapid antigen tests and a creaking hospital...

India’s military modernisation must not be derailed by death of defence chief (Baani Grewal, The Strategist)

The death of Indian General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash last month may have far-reaching consequences for the Indian military and its defence...

Bosnia’s next crisis (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate, The Strategist)

The Russian threat to Ukraine isn’t the only potential crisis in Eastern Europe this year. Bosnia and Herzegovina is heading for a period of...

Democracy should feature in South Korean development assistance (Simon Bruns, East Asia Forum)

South Korea has been praised for its successful COVID-19 containment strategy, which has managed to keep deaths significantly below the global average. In April 2020,...
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