South East Asia

China has heavily invested in education, science, technology, and innovation since it launched reforms and opened up in 1978. In early days, China sent its youth to world-class universities all over the world and developed quality human resources. In the next stage, China focused on upgrading their own universities and invested within Chinese universities. Curricula were modernized, and teaching methods were improved. Exam systems were changed, and they started to catch up with the global universities and struggled to achieve global ranking. As a result, today, around a dozen universities have achieved status in the top hundred universities of the world, and nearly a hundred universities fall among the top 500 universities of the top global universities.

A new biography reveals how the slain al-Qaeda leader created an ideology and infrastructure that outlived him.

Sajjan Gohel’s important work on deceased al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is not only highly readable but constitutes a much more complete biographical study than the very few works previously published on one of the most significant Islamist leaders.

US President Donald Trump on Monday expressed his willingness to defuse the latest tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan following deadly border clashes over the weekend, declaring that he is “good at making peace.”

Fighting broke out late Saturday and continued into Sunday morning along the frontier. According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 23 Pakistani soldiers were martyred, while Islamabad’s retaliatory action left about 200 Taliban and allied militants dead.

L’accord de Doha comme acte de capitulation : Analyse de la faillite stratégique de l’empire américain qui, après avoir dépensé des milliers de milliards, n’a acheté que le chaos et a renforcé ses ennemis.

Août 2021 est devenu un moment de vérité non seulement pour l’Afghanistan, mais aussi pour le monde entier. Les images de la fuite panique des soldats américains de l’aéroport de Kaboul, les tentatives désespérées des Afghans de s’agripper au train d’atterrissage de l’avion de transport C-17 au décollage – ce ne sont pas simplement des images d’actualité.

The Taliban rose to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s. It achieved international notoriety for hosting al Qaeda through the September 11, 2001, attacks. These zealous Islamists were toppled from power by U.S. forces and our Afghan allies shortly after those attacks. But the group fought back for two decades. Its tenacity paid dividends. The United States withdrew in ignominious defeat in 2021.

With the leaders of Russia, Iran, and North Korea watching, Beijing conducted a massive parade on Wednesday, demonstrating the results of a years-long effort by the Chinese Communist Party to build a military it hopes can defeat the United States in the Pacific.

Beijing’s growing prowess has eroded American security and increased the likelihood of war in the Taiwan Strait, but it is not too late for Americans to respond.