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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

China’s Careful Navigation in the Middle East

For the past several years, the Middle East has been China’s key trading hub, not least because of more than 70 per cent of the oil that Beijing imports from here. Between 2017 and 2022, China’s bilateral trade with this region jumped from US$262 billion to US$507 billion. In 2022 alone, the region saw its trade with China jumping by more than 27 per cent. This was the largest increase in China’s trade compared with other regions, such as the ASEAN.

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Will the new US President change Washington’s Israel-Palestine Policy?

In popular parlance, the US President Joe Biden is already known as ‘Genocide Biden’ – a title that unmistakably highlights the role Biden has been playing, since October 2023, in facilitating Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. With Biden now all set to not contest in the upcoming presidential elections in the US in November this year, the question of whether the new president – Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump – bring any change to the US policy towards Israel?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Washington’s new Arctic Strategy promises Militarization

Shaped by the existing geopolitical dynamics, the Arctic region is coming under a lot of pressure from global powers. Russia and China, on the one hand, are seeking to integrate this region via what China calls a “Polar Silk Road” – something that would make the region’s fossil fuels accessible worldwide. But the US is increasingly worried about these developments. It primarily sees these developments from a zero-sum perspective, with any gains that the Russia-China duo makes directly…

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Ignoring Washington, India Embraces Russia and Multipolarity

Salman Rafi Sheikh

NATO Plans to Destabilize Asia

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The Trump Factor and NATO’s Expansion into Asia

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Will the US-Japan military alliance make any difference?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

On the Death of the Petrodollar System

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