Day: February 11, 2022

Building on these successes, however, may prove difficult for Modi. Pakistan and China have strengthened their cooperation. New challenges are emerging from the security vacuum Washington left behind in Afghanistan. Other fires to put out include a rapidly drifting Indo-Russian relationship and the military coup in neighboring Myanmar that has […]

A Chinese dissident artist based in Australia, Badiucao, who describes himself as ‘hated by Chinese Gov’ has launched an NFT collection protesting the Beijing Winter Olympics which began on Feb 4. In his series, the artist who is dubbed as ‘Chinese Banksy’ portrays a figure skater slicing up a red […]

EA: Mostly figure skating. It’s fun to watch, but you’re right that human rights concerns cast a pall over the whole thing. Plus, it’s impossible to avoid the politics: The Russians have reportedly been caught doping again , and even some of the skiing competition has been overshadowed by controversy […]

“U.S. troops on a permanent basis, that’s an absolute priority,” said Laima Liucija Andrikiene, chair of Lithuania’s Foreign Affairs Committee, in an interview . “It’s simply a red line, a very clear message to the Russians.” The United States has rotated a small number of troops through Lithuania since 2019, […]

In answering such a question, it is necessary to acknowledge some concrete realities amid the escalatory rhetoric that has been taking place by both Moscow and the West in recent weeks. Although the United States has continued to warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, this depends […]

In internal regime discourse, Pyongyang proudly refers to its cyberoperations as its “ all-purpose sword .” According to testimony from a South Korean intelligence chief, Kim reportedly stated: “Cyberwarfare, along with nuclear weapons and missiles, is an ‘all-purpose sword’ that guarantees our military’s capability to strike relentlessly.” Subversive, criminal operations […]