Asia
Here is How China-US Trade War Impacts Iran
In the last week of August, China added crude oil imports from the US to its tariff list for the first time in a retaliatory decision against the US decision to impose fresh tariffs on Chinese products. China imports about 6 per cent of its crude oil from the US. For an economy that increasingly relies on crude oil imports, this decision carries a lot of significance. While China is also...
China, Russia and Iran: Basis of the New Geopolitical Order
In a recent very insightful article, analyst Alistair Crooke argued that the United States was institutionally incapable of making a substantive deal with Iran. Written before the recent removal of national security adviser John Bolton from his position, Mr Crooke argued that decades long sanctions have...
Demonstrative Strengthening of US-Israel Ties Harms Arab Interests
With the next US presidential election approaching, Donald Trump twitted that he had a conversations with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of striking a defence pact between Washington and Tel-Aviv. Thus, the head of the American...
