Op-ed

While commenting on the political situation in Pakistan — and the no confidence motion which the Pakistan Tehreek E Insaaf (PTI) government led by Pakistani PM Imran Khan is facing on April 3, 2022 — China said that it would not like to interfere in the domestic affairs …

Martha Garcia It is no mystery that Mexico has always subdued itself towards the desires of the United States of America, the imposing neighbor of the north. However, the extremes to which the current government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is willing to go are rather alarming. He …

Eric Zeusse  On Friday, April 1st, an extremely deceptive news-report from Britain’s Reuters news agency headlined innocuously “Exclusive: U.S. cancels ICBM test due to Russia nuclear tensions”, but a more honest and attention-grabbing headline would have been “We’ve now reached the precipice of WW III.” Here is why: …

Wei Hongxu The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to continuously affecting global trade and investment. Energy issues, raw material issues, and global supply chain shock actually reflect new obstacles to globalization under the influence of populism. These changes also pose new challenges to global capital markets. …

A new report suggests that if one farmer in five transitions to more climate-smart practices, it will increase the European Union’s resiliency to food supply shocks and address the worst effects of climate change. Growth in the EU’s agricultural sector has come at the expense of environmental health, …

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The US Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center, in collaboration with Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has developed a new Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to protect military ground vehicles from cyberattacks for more connected and automated self-propelled vehicle networks so as to achieve cyber resilience. The …

Gerald Hyman The United States and its NATO allies need to address the reality as it is and take several steps to help resolve the conflict. Early on Thursday, February 24, Russian armed forces began to bomb, invade, and attempt to crush Ukraine or at least replace its …

Misbah Abidin The major continents of the world are experiencing a paradigm change within and outside their borders. The change is horrible for some states as they are at risk of ever emerging nuclear threats. The nature and dimensions of war has moulded the defence mechanism and so …