Salman Rafi Sheikh

It is not difficult to imagine as to why China is at the heart of the US presidential elections debate. The current US president has been nourishing an anti-China narrative ever since he became the president in 2016, moving from starting a ‘trade war’ with China to making deals and then re-starting the war in the wake of the pandemic, coming finally to the brink...

While there is little gainsaying that the UAE-Israel deal will have some important implications for the Middle East, the wide-spread perception that the US played a direct role in facilitating this breakthrough appears to be a complete misreading of the process that actually produced this deal. While the US did have its own peace plan, known as the ‘deal of the century’, the actual deal...

Whereas the recently announced UAE-Israeli deal may have significant relevance to the falling political fortunes of both Netanyahu and Donald Trump and their attempt to project this deal as a ‘success story’, there is much more to the deal that meets the eye. This is particularly pertinent with regards to the geo-politics...