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Salman Rafi Sheikh

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

US is Now Provoking Taiwan

Expansionism knows no bounds. After taking Europe to the verge of a major war by pushing for NATO’s expansion further into Eastern Europe to encircle Russia, the US is now increasingly focusing on Taiwan for what the US officials have been, for over a year now, calling an ‘increasing possibility’ of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. There is a flurry of activity going on around Taiwan to prevent it from suffering...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The Biden Administration Steals Afghanistan’s Money

After keeping it under direct occupation, destroying the country for 20 years – and failing to militarily defeat the Taliban (banned in Russia) – Joe Biden’s executive order to simply seize half of Afghanistan’s little over US$7 billion to use it to pay to the victims of 9/11 is just a mockery of the “values” that the US always claims to hold. With the world’s richest...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Sanctions on Russia Cost the US More Than it Thinks

For more than many weeks now, many Western leaders have been calling for blocking Russia out of the SWFIT payment system. The UK’s Boris Johnson thinks that this is a potentially good way of ‘punishing’ Russia. But the US/EU have not blocked Russia out of this global payments system yet. There are two reasons for this ‘reluctnace.’ First, even if the West decides…

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Diagnosis: Why the China Containment Policy is Failing

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Sino-Russia Energy Deals to Defeat US/NATO Expansionism

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Blinken’s Asia-Pacific Tour: Fighting the War by Other Means

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Washington Rolls Out a ‘New’ Approach to Encircling China

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Why Would Washington Assist the Afghan Taliban?

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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