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Salman Rafi Sheikh

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

With an Eye on China, India Cuts Iran Loose & Embraces the US

India, tied as it to the US apron strings, has suffered a major strategic set-back in Iran where not only has it potentially lost exclusive development rights and control of the strategically important port of Chabahar, but has also been kicked out of Farzad-B gas field project. This has potentially meant a physical death of the ambitious...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

F-35s and the Reshaping of Middle Eastern Strategic Landscape

The UAE and Israel have achieved in less than six weeks what Israel and Egypt have not achieved in over 41 years. While this does look remarkable, there is still a devil in the details. The Abraham Accords, happening against a changing geo-strategic landscape of the Middle East and the rise of Iran and Turkey as two powerful...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Erdogan’s ‘Neo-Ottomanism’ Reaches the Caucasus

In making his speeches on the on-going military conflict in the Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey’s Erdogan has not minced words in invoking the ‘Turkishness’ of the people of Azerbaijan and how protecting Azerbaijan falls within his definition of the revival Turkish glory of the Ottoman days. One crucial reason for why Turkey has started...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Pompeo’s ‘Tokyo Kick’ Cannot Start the QUAD

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Pompeo: The Man of US Foreign Policy Catastrophe

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Israel to Retain Military Supremacy in the Middle East

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Trump and Racialization of US Relations with China

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Europe’s Decisive Moves to Shun ‘Trans-Atlanticism’

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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