South Asia
US pushes for SOFA violating Sri Lanka’s sovereignty
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
While the contents of the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the governments of Sri Lanka and the US still remain...
India And Pakistan Could End The World As We Know It
Yes, India And Pakistan Could End The World As We Know It Through A Nuclear Exchange
Even a relatively small regional nuclear war could trigger...
The largest strike in history is happening in India right now
By Ben Cowles
January 8, 2019
AROUND 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Labour and...
US quits Human Rights Council wearing the emperor’s new clothes
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...
Sri Lanka, Independent Republic to Vassal State
By Tamara Kunanayakam
former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
April 3, 2018
The question repeatedly asked of me, a major preoccupation of...
Defense Industry and Geopolitical Competitions
The F-35 is such an incredibly integrated platform that changing its sensors would be like asking Apple to manufacture an iPhoneX just for you...
Sri Lanka, tension alarmante, les Etats-Unis à la manœuvre !
Par Jean-Pierre Page
Les évènements tragiques intervenus ces derniers jours à Ampara dans le sud-est du pays et surtout à Kandy, l’ancienne capitale historique de...
Pakistan and China: Window to the West
Window to the West
By Munir Akram *
January 21, 2018
WHEN in 1960 Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he reportedly...
Trump’s Threat of the Week: Now Pakistan!
Trump's first 2018 tweet: Pakistan has 'given us nothing but lies & deceit'
By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Washington (CNN)In his first tweet of the new year...
India’s deafening silence after Trump’s Jerusalem shift
by Zeenat Saberin
India's two-sentence response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital last week elicited mixed reactions after New Delhi for decades...