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M A HossainPakistan Observer |
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a narrow stretch of water with outsized geopolitical importance. Yet the latest regional...
Benjamin Netanyahu's recent declaration that Israel must eventually free itself from dependence on American military aid sounded, at first...
Xi Jinping’s arrival in Pyongyang on June 8, his first in nearly seven years, is precisely that kind of visit. It is the visit of a patron who...
The hemisphere's longest-running standoff may finally be reaching its breaking point — but not necessarily in the way anyone expects. Cuba, in...
There is a moment in the long, unglamorous history of weapons development when a technology stops being a tool and starts being a doctrine. The...
Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to China falls into the category of events where symbolism sometimes matters more than treaties. No grand alliance was...
History rarely announces itself in real time. When President Richard Nixon landed in Beijing in 1972 to meet Mao Zedong, the world understood...
There is a certain irony in seeing some of the world’s richest countries quietly ask the United States for financial relief. For decades, the Gulf...
There is something almost ritualistic about the moment when oil prices cross the psychologically powerful threshold of $100 per barrel. Markets...
In certain quarters of Washington, one imagines corks popping. The news flashes across screens: a coordinated American and Israeli strike has killed...
Politics in Bangladesh has rarely been a gentle craft. It has been a battlefield. Victory has meant annihilation. Defeat has meant persecution. For...
The streets of Havana, once alive with music and the hum of daily life, now tell a quieter story: long lines at petrol stations with nothing to...
POLITICS eventually meets reality. Campaign slogans fade; governing remains. An electoral mandate is not a trophy but a test. For the Bangladesh...