South East Asia

How could one of the world’s oldest and most sophisticated civilizations, shaped for centuries by Confucian philosophy, suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of Britain, a relatively small island nation, during the Opium Wars? How did this defeat usher in what the Chinese now remember as the “Century of Humiliation”? Why was China—then the world’s largest economy, possessing the most advanced bureaucracy and the greatest productive capacity—unable to recognize the transformative impact of the Industrial Revolution? More importantly, what lessons has modern China drawn from this painful chapter of its history?

Afghanistan’s dramatic collapse in opium production following the Taliban’s nationwide drug ban is fundamentally reshaping global heroin markets, reducing supplies of the drug while raising the risk that traffickers and users will increasingly turn to more dangerous synthetic opioids, according to a United Nations report released Friday.

What most in the Alt-Media Community struggle to accept is that multipolarity doesn’t imply a geopolitical utopia wherein problems between all non-Western countries immediately disappear due to their shared interest in moving past the US-centric unipolar system.

Recently, Pakistan was rocked by the Baloch Liberation Army’s “Herof Phase 2” offensive, a coordinated assault across nine districts that combined urban raids, rural guerrilla tactics, suicide missions, and psychological warfare. This was not simply an internal security lapse, it was a geopolitical tremor reverberating across South Asia.