The start of a new world
The recent SCO Summit, combined with the Victory Day parade in China, marked a significant move to achieve the goal of a new multipolar world. The presence of Russian President…
Two superpowers, one dangerous game
The recent military parade in China and US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Department of Defense have created a spectre of heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington,…
What’s it good for?
DONALD Trump’s rebranding of the US Department of Defence as the Department of War may seem incongruous for a president hankering after the Nobel Peace Prize. Inevitably, there is a…
Chinese checkers
AFICIONADOS of spectacular martial displays will no doubt find today’s military parade in Beijing considerably more impressive than the one that marked 250 years of the US Army (as well as Donald…
Trump stung by SCO optics
THE Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjing, followed by the grand military parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, was all about optics and signaling. Looking at the reaction from the US and EU it would be…
True South F.S.
THE years ahead are shorter than those already lived. Time therefore to honour two Pakistanis lost to history: Ch. M. Zafrulla Khan (1893-1985) and Eqbal Ahmad (1933-1999). Both shared a…
An alternative to the West?
The recently concluded summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Chinese city of Tianjin brings to the fore the question of whether the Eurasian region can constitute a…
From the Afghanistan files
It was on the BBC World Service at 7pm Riyadh time on December 24, 1979 that I heard the news that the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. The operation had…
Alaska optics win for Putin
IF the Gaza genocide does not serve as a strong enough daily reminder of how bereft of principles Western politics is, images of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his US…
More than food
Israel has imposed man-made starvation on the population of Gaza since the aggression against the enclave began in October 2023. This campaign intensified drastically after March 2025, when the Zionist…
