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Salman Rafi Sheikh

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

The Blowback of Washington’s Geopolitics of Containment

When President Joe Biden upgraded the US policy of containment to dual containment i.e., a simultaneous containment of Russia and China via a crisis manufactured in Europe (Ukraine) and Asia (Taiwan), little did he, or his administration, know this could mark the beginning of a process that could alter the existing world order in ways never seen before since the end...

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What the US-Instigated Crisis in Taiwan Means for Europe

In response to Nancy Pelosi’s stubborn – and provocative – visit to Taiwan, China has initiated military drills in the Taiwan Strait. This military drill amounts to a naval blockade of not only Taiwan but prolonged drills, with live shooting in the sea, could ultimately create a crisis that will, very much like the Ukraine crisis, hit the West – especially, the EU...

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Why Saudi Arabia is Unlikely to Support the US in the Russia-Ukraine War

Despite the US President Joe Biden’s decision to embrace Saudia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (M.B.S.) for a larger cause of salvaging the struggling European and US economies, the Kingdom is unlikely to embrace Washington’s geopolitics against Russia. This fact flies in the face of many assessments...

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War in Ukraine Triggers the End of the Unipolar World

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How Washington is Raising the Geopolitical Temperature around Taiwan

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The ‘Gas Crisis’ in Europe is its Own Doing

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Western Delusion of “Isolating” Russia

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Joe Biden’s Risky Strategic ‘U-turn’ on Saudi Arabia

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