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China Doesn’t Need Colonies. It Needs Contracts.
The debt-trap story about China is too simple. The harder question is what happens when a sovereign borrower needs a creditor more than the creditor needs the borrower.
American Power and India: Washington Hits a Limit
India’s Russian oil purchases and expanding rupee-rouble settlement system reveal a limit of American economic coercion without signalling the end of dollar power.
Russia Pakistan Freight Corridor: Geography Tests History
In June 2023, 45,000 tonnes of Russian crude reached Karachi under Pakistan’s first government-to-government oil deal with Moscow. Pakistan paid…
Mastercard Automatic Billing Updater: Why Replacing Your Credit Card Won’t Stop Unauthorized Debits in Pakistan
I checked my banking app at breakfast and froze. Two weeks earlier, I canceled my compromised credit card following an…
Pakistan’s Somalia Bet: Can Military Power Buy Influence?
Somalia may test whether Pakistan can turn security capacity into geopolitical reach without Gulf-scale capital. On August 4, Pakistan signed…
Germany Needs Foreign Workers. Can the AfD’s Immigration Policy Work?
Germany wants tighter control over immigration while its ageing labour force increasingly depends on foreign workers. My daughter’s life in…
The US Has Reset Its Africa Strategy. China Is Not the Only Problem.
Washington has moved toward commercial diplomacy and critical minerals. The harder test is whether its trade policy can support the…
Balfour Declaration and Palestine: An Unequal Promise
Britain did not invent Zionism, but its imperial machinery gave the Jewish national project a status that Palestinian Arabs did…
AI Data Centers in India: Follow the Subsidy Ledger
AI data centers in India are booming. I follow the subsidies, power demand and ownership behind the investment rush.
Iran May Have Broken America’s Model of Global Military Power
A message reached my phone in Karachi this morning while I was following the latest developments around the Persian Gulf….