Saudi Arabia may have been getting more than it bargained for when authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city, ordered that the city
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed four cases of the new deadly coronavirus. On 29 January 2020, the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Com
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On 27 January 2020, King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered the repatriation of 100 Moroccan nationals, mostly students, from the Wuhan area of China,
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Underlying global efforts to counter fake news, psychological warfare and malicious manipulation of public opinion is a far more fundamental battl
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Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims to sh
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Bans on “abnormal” beards and even the name “Muhammad” CHINESE officials describe the far western province of Xinjiang as a “core area” in the vast
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Remarks at conference on Regional Cooperation Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific and the Emergence of New Eurasian Geopolitics, Centre on Asia and Glob
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Critics in the Maldives likely sighed relief when Saudi King Salman this week postponed his visit because of an outbreak of flu. The flu is however
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This week’s sanctioning of one of China’s largest telecom equipment manufacturers, ZTE, by the US Commerce Department, and an investigation of Huawe
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This essay argues that Africa is undergoing changes in its economies in the 21st century, not only because of the role that China is playing but owi
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