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Taiwan, China and the US: Not Playing a Tit-For-Tat Game

The Pentagon forecasts a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by 2027. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has thus proposed massive defense spending increases as the United States continues to sell the island... Read full article

M. Habib Pashya - February 23, 2026

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Outside the Box
Is the Deep State Really That Fearful of Multipolarity? Part 1
by Peter Isackson
Central & South Asia
Pakistan Digital Authority: Building a Citizen-Centric Digital Future
by Saima Afzal
Culture
Myth or Symbol: What Shapes the Image of Russia’s Traditions?
by Ilya Ganpantsura
Business
Carrots Beat Tariffs: How Smart Policy Attracts Manufacturing Investment
by John Manzella

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Ayan Rakshit, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Marco Rubio Reassures Europe to Death

Europe craved reassurance at Munich. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio obliged by delivering hollow platitudes about shared history and...

Is Silicon Valley’s Next Big Export… Sainthood?

A world dominated by narcissistic celebrities and corporate propaganda is in dire need of a new...

Arms (Nuclear) and the Man (Epstein)

Two chilling stories converge this week: The Epstein files reveal an oligarchy operating beyond democratic oversight,...

Dollar Milkshake Theory Is Still Useful

Despite rising debt and excessive money printing, US Treasuries remain...

by Alex Gloy

The US Legal System is Being Hacked

by William Softky

Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation

by Shermeen Yousif

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by Peter Isackson

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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