Over the latter half of the 20th century, relations between China and Pakistan were anchored in large part on both countries' strategic interest in balancing India as a regional power. The Karakoram Highway, which runs for 500 miles between the two nations, is representative of those...
Although billed as a 'friendship highway', the Chinese-built Karakoram Highway has carried Chinese arms into Pakistan and allowed passage of trained Islamic insurgents into China.
ISLAMABAD: The Karakoram Highway,...
This collection of editorial comments from Arab media argues that although the perpetrators of the Moscow theater hostage crisis identify themselves with Muslim groups, their actions are contrary to Islamic teachings and are utterly unacceptable to humanity. The inability to distinguish individual...
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En sólo tres décadas, China ha dejado de ser uno de los países más pobres, para convertirse en la segunda economía más grande del mundo. Sin embargo, en palabras de Yanzhong Huang, un senior fellow para Salud Global del Council on Foreign Relations de Washington DC, el rápido crecimiento chino se...
The dark side of growth: Forty percent of China’s rivers are polluted (top); China, dubbed the world’s factory is badly regulated
NUEVA YORK: De haber sido uno de los países más pobres del mundo a estar sólo detrás de los Estados Unidos, China está...
The U.S. and the European Union (EU) still have not reached an agreement on the International Criminal Court (ICC), mainly due to the American fear that its own soldiers may face trials in a non-American court in accordance with the statutes of the ICC. In this article, the author argues that if...
First, the bad news. The dispute between America and Europe over the future of the International Criminal Court is potentially the most dangerous and divisive dispute across the Atlantic since September 11....
Widespread media coverage of a south Texas warehouse sheds light on the physical manifestations of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy vis-à-vis illegal immigration. An estimated 2,000 children have been taken from their parents since US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the...
Corporations are increasingly eager to resume control over traditional government responsibilities. The latest example: Facebook released a white paper on plans to develop a borderless cryptocurrency system with a group of central banks, regulators and 27 partner companies. Facebook along with Uber...
Migration was up 2 percent for OECD countries in 2018, with 5.3 million new permanent migrants. European OECD nations combined receive the most permanent migrants; the United States is the top destination followed by Germany. Asylum seekers have declined, and most are from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq...
Humans, their growing numbers and development, are overwhelming the world’s other 8.5 million species. “Without a global societal transformation that focuses on protecting nature, one million species may be pushed to extinction by human activities in the coming years – with serious consequences for...