Middle East

Ekaterina Blinova China opposed the West’s unilateral sanctions against Russia and barred the SWIFT ban, saying that it has no basis in international law. The FT admitted that Beijing could reduce the pressure of the restrictions by bolstering Russo-Chinese mutually beneficial cooperation in agriculture, hi-tech, banking, energy, and …

Andrew Rhymer Going into 2022, emerging markets are far better equipped to deal with Covid-19 than a year ago. Economic growth is slowing after the post-pandemic bounce amid a slowdown in China, and tighter monetary and fiscal policy elsewhere in emerging markets. If inflationary pressures ease, so should …

Anton Kolokin Two years into our last review on state of the artt in the area of artificial intelligence, there has been a widening gap between the seeming omnipotence of neural network models based on “deep learning”, which are offered by market leaders, and the demand for an …

James Dorsey The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar — the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded. For the past month, mass protests have swept Gwadar, a Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city 90 kilometers from the …

Zaeem Hassan Mehmoud “Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions. Each period therefore, would have held its own theory of war, even if the urge had always and universally existed to ensure security on scientific principles”              -Carl von …

Nassem Javed Last many decades, if accidently, we missed the boat on understanding equality, diversity and tolerance, nevertheless,  how obediently and intentionally we worshiped the technology no matter how dark or destructive a shape it morphed into; slaved to ‘dark-technology’ our faith remained untarnished and faith fortified that …

Yaroslav Lissovolik Across the continent Eurasia, major constituencies such as the EU, China and Russia are forging ahead with their plans to develop an emissions trading system (ETS). The system works by putting a limit on overall emissions which is reduced each year. Within this limit, companies can …

Mehwesh Kayani BRI a developmental approach embraced by China is the revival of ancient silk road project in order to promote interconnectivity and interdependence because of the overwhelming changes in the global economy and geopolitical balances in the world. By implementing this project china has an aim to …

Fatma Ahmed Althani Fatma Althani has presented her desertion with the focus on Arab Free Zone during the period of 1997-2005, which she defended at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (University of Tripoli). Fatma provided Geostrategic Media with an abstract of her paper and we publish it upon her approval. Abstract  The …