South East Asia

Washington Institute experts explain what U.S. officials and military planners should be on the lookout for as great power competitors and close allies outside the region consider their responses to the crisis. Trump’s Next Steps Will Reverberate Beyond the Middle East President Trump’s decision to attack Iran adds another layer …

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s proxy groups and sympathetic Shiite communities have arranged demonstrations across the Middle East following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an airstrike. Many of these protests have turned violent, with some forcing US Embassies and consulates to close. Nonessential diplomatic staff have …

Actions speak louder than words. But right now, words are all that China can afford to offer the regime in Iran. On March 1, the Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while urging an immediate cessation of hostilities. Beijing has long supported Iran …

La présence militaire chinoise s’intensifie en Afrique avec les exercices navals BRICS menés par l’APL Les efforts continus de la Chine pour intégrer les gouvernements africains dans ses architectures de sécurité mondiales risquent de compromettre la préférence de longue date de l’Afrique pour éviter d’être entraînée dans des camps géopolitiques …

L’objectif est d’obtenir un contrôle indirect sur les immenses réserves de pétrole et de gaz iraniennes afin de les utiliser comme moyen de pression sur la Chine et de la contraindre à un accord commercial déséquilibré. Cet accord permettrait de freiner son ascension au rang de superpuissance et, par conséquent, …

Trump warned countries against reneging on their deals with the US, and even if he can’t legally reimpose his threatened 25% punitive tariff on India if it defiantly reverses its trend of reducing Russian oil imports, he might still resume the US’ containment of it through Pakistan and Bangladesh. CNBC …

The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity. Trump claimed that the US’ military campaign …

A Declaration of Arrest Report, issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the detention of Ori Solomon on January 31, states that there is a “deeper conspiracy” between an illegal biological lab in Reedley, California and a residence containing apparently dangerous substances in Nevada. Fortunately, in …

L’Asie centrale doit tirer parti de ses richesses minières pour construire son autonomie stratégique et non pour sombrer dans la rivalité entre grandes puissances. La lutte d’influence mondiale du XXIe siècle évolue vers un espace de compétition plus complexe, dépassant le cadre de la géopolitique des hydrocarbures qui a longtemps …

What most in the Alt-Media Community struggle to accept is that multipolarity doesn’t imply a geopolitical utopia wherein problems between all non-Western countries immediately disappear due to their shared interest in moving past the US-centric unipolar system. India’s Deputy National Security Advisor Vikram Misri reaffirmed over the weekend during the …