An authoritarian leader’s every action is driven by his political ambitions. Xi Jinping is no different. He wants to establish himself as the leader for life in China....

Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday that Chinese ace business journalist Li Peiyu was being investigated for'embezzlement' and 'extortion. China’s wolf-warrior and strident journalist Hu Xijin, who also stepped...

Turkey’s economy is sinking faster than Erdogan’s fortunes. Turkey’s currency Lira entered a free-fall zone on Friday, with the Borsa Istanbul 100 index extending declines to a new...

Geopolitical relationship is a marriage of convenience. Forget commitments and promises, what prevails in the end, are interests of one’s own. So, one of Israel’s staunchest enemies—Qatar, is...

You usually hike interest rates while facing red hot inflation. In Turkey, Erdogan is running a race in the opposite direction. He is lowering the interest rate, which...

The world is not aware of Indonesia’s nuclear ambitions, but the current Joko Widodo administration is mundane. It admires the country’s first president Sukarno, who once aspired of...

The competition between South Korea and China in the battery manufacturing sector is cut-throat. South Korea is helping Australia boost its defences against China, while Australia is helping...

It’s been almost a year now since Donald Trump vacated the Presidential office in January, but the scars inflicted by his administration still run deep in the Chinese...

Social media is inundated with Chinese state-backed propaganda. While giants like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are blocked in China, the communist nation continues to exploit these platforms to...

Joe Biden utterly ruined the strong message that would have been sent to China and other autocracies through the democracy summit. China openly poked the US in the...

Angela Merkel is history now. Her legacy is something that the human rights watchers will prefer to despise. The European Union (EU) under her leadership failed to address...

China’s economy is falling and some of the major benefactors of this crisis in China are India, Vietnam and Indonesia. However, if the tectonic shift in Japan’s economic...