US Congress members’ ‘rare China visit’ conveys three signals
Following the phone call between the Chinese and US presidents, a US House delegation, led by US Representative Adam Smith, arrived in China on Sunday for a visit. This marks…
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Should America pull back and go alone?
Naftali Bendavid wrote in a review of the world system post-Second World War Shahid Javed Burki The answer posed in the title of this essay has come from…
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Is Washington really willing to be the ‘lonely outlier’ on the Palestinian issue?
On Sunday local time, Australia, Canada and the UK announced their recognition of Palestinian statehood. Reports show that France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Malta, and San Marino also plan to…
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Bloodshed Will Repeat
Dhurba Giri On Bhadra 23, the Gen-Z movement shed blood. The brutal repression of the state claimed the lives of 19 unarmed youths, and its backlash erupted on Bhadra 24.…
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New $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in US goes into effect; India warns ‘humanitarian consequences’: media reports
A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in the US that goes into effect on Sunday will be levied per petition and will not be applied to existing holders of…
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A China-US relationship working in the same direction is a blessing for the world
On the evening of September 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with US President Donald Trump on the phone. The two presidents had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on the…
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New world order: impressions and realities
President Xi Jinping was projected as an unchallenged global leader representing China Ahmer Shahzad The recently held SCO Summit and Tiananmen Square parade in China trumpeted the onset…
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China and Russia: alternative global governance initiative
Dr Muhammad Ali Ehsan China dominated global politics in the first week of September 2025. First, we had the SCO meeting in Tianjin, and then the Victory Day parade was…
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Shanghai by heart
Farrukh Khan Pitafi We live in spite of history, not because of it. Nothing at birth can equip us for a past so full of suffering and in which we…
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What is more noteworthy than the US renaming its Department of Defense?
On September 5 local time, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, sparking widespread international attention. The White House…