Turkmenistan may emerge as a global powerbroker
While the world is watching Ukraine, there is another former Soviet republic that has quietly undergone regime change. Turkmenistan’s 65-year-old…
Was the Kazakhstan uprising an attempted Jihadi takeover?
The Kazakh uprising is over. The stench of burnt-out vehicles and bombed out buildings in Kazakhstan’s most populous city and…
What’s happening in Kazakhstan?
Since the start of the new year, riots have spread throughout Kazakhstan. In the former capital of Almaty, the airport has…
Dangerous waters
The case against Aukus
Did Chinese fentanyl kill Michael K. Williams?
Did Chinese-manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, kill Michael Kenneth Williams, the man who played ‘Omar’ in The Wire? Within minutes…
Would Japan defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack?
In a parliamentary debate in early June about Covid, Japan’s prime minister Yoshihide Suga said that Australia, New Zealand and…
What kind of empire is China building?
As Britain’s small fleet, headed by HMS Queen Elizabeth, cruises towards the South China Sea, there remains a question over…
Chairman Xi and the Communist party’s delusional centenary
The emperor has new clothes. Arriving at a meeting to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, China’s…
Oiling up
How China won over the Middle East
Strait lines
Is Britain heading for war over Taiwan?
Passage to India
Can Biden’s America contain China?
Is Kazakhstan capable of transitioning to democracy?
In the dramatic ‘reveal’ of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, the lead character, private dick Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) violently extracts the…
Coup de grâce
The downfall of Aung San Suu Kyi
Duterte Harry: why is he the Philippines’ most popular ever leader?
If you thought Donald Trump was rude to journalists, hang on to your hats. Miffed by a journalist’s temerity in…
Cold war
Russia’s bid to control the Arctic
Was 2008 the year China triumphed over the West?
Although China’s economy remains smaller than the United States’s in terms of nominal GDP (albeit ahead of the US in…
Erdogan’s game
Why Turkey is severing its links with the West
Portrait of The Lady
It’s as ignorant to demonise Aung San Suu Kyi as it was to idolise her
Thailand’s Caligula
Why are protestors risking it all to challenge the king?
God of war
Not prosecuting Hirohito was a mistake
Sea change
China has its sights on the Bay of Bengal
