The last week was incredible in terms of the growth of India’s technology companies, as a record round of funding moved focus to the world’s second-largest market at a time when investors were concerned about China’s crackdown on tech firms. While the food delivery app Zomato with funding from Morgan […]
Read Time : 11 Minutes
Beijing Eyes New Military Bases Across the Indo-Pacific
Beijing is hardly content to limit its military basing pursuits to the South Pacific. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is already making serious headway securing new bases in Cambodia , Tanzania , and the United Arab Emirates , among other locales. Whether or not Washington can derail Beijing’s plans is […]
Read Time : 14 Minutes
France Bids Adieu to Its Military Mission in West Africa
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to wrap up “Operation Barkhane” reflects both disappointing results from the eight-year effort to stamp out jihadis from their newest staging ground and Macron’s own desire to reset relations with Africa. Since the early days of his presidency, Macron has vowed to put an end […]
Read Time : 40 Minutes
China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas
In April 1998, with the Himalayan passes still more than 6 feet deep in snow, Penpa Tsering, a 22-year-old Tibetan herder, set off to the south from his home in Tibet across a remote 15,700-foot-high pass called the Namgung La. He was leading a train of a dozen yaks carrying […]
Read Time : 2 Minutes
US Troops leaving their Afghan supporters behind Face ‘Increasing Threats’
As the US troops are leaving the Afghanistan the people who supported the US troops are scared and said the threat on them has increased. Some of them said that despite promises by Western countries, it is not known when they will be out of the country. The United States, […]
Read Time : 1 Minutes
Key districts of Afghan retook by forces from Taliban
The Taliban took over control on the many districts of northern Afghanistan, the Kaldar was one of them which is successfully retook by Afghan forces this Monday. Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) managed to take control of the Kaldar district from the Taliban after launching a military operation, […]
Read Time : 13 Minutes
How COVID-19 Has Shaped South Asia
The highlights this week: What COVID-19 has meant for South Asia, Taliban offensives continue in Afghanistan, and Nepal’s Supreme Court removes an embattled prime minister. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: What COVID-19 has meant for South Asia, Taliban offensives continue in Afghanistan, and Nepal’s […]
Read Time : 6 Minutes
The United States Can’t Afford the Brutal Price of Chinese Solar Panels
But buying Chinese solar panels to reduce emissions is like using gas to put out a fire. To manufacture critical raw materials like polysilicon, Chinese firms rely on coal-powered electricity in Xinjiang. Without even accounting for the energy impact of transporting the final products, a solar panel made in China […]