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China’s Belt and Road Initiative Spending Falls in the First Half of 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) continues its downward slide in 2022 as spending on new projects declines and Chinese...
Uganda Airport Deal: A Chinese Belt and Road Debt Trap?
Ethiopia’s Tigray War Is Rooted in Power Politics
Ethiopia Slides Toward Civil War, Extending the Greater Middle East’s Arc of Crisis
Why Foreign Countries Are Scrambling To Set Up Bases in Africa
The Foreign Aid Game is Changing: These Are The Opportunities for Africa
Interest Rate Hike By Hawkish Fed Raises Recession Risks
Gas Prices Are Falling. But the Decline Isn’t Enough Where It’s Most Expensive in the U.S.
Dr. Oz Should Be Worried: Voters Punish ‘Carpetbaggers,’ and New Research Shows Why
Biden Climate Bill Could Make It Tougher to Qualify for an EV Tax Credit
Gas Prices Are Dropping. How Low Can They Go?
King Charles III: Britain’s New Ruler is a Traditionalist Skeptic of Modernity
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Is No Chernobyl, But Russian Shelling Poses Dangers to Population
Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Is on Fire, Claims Foreign Minister
Game of Drones: Turkey’s Battle-Tested Bayraktar TB2 Makes its Mark in Russia-Ukraine War
What Makes a State a State? Why Places Like Kosovo Live in Limbo
China More Popular Than U.S. In Arab World, Survey Shows
American Military Presence in the Middle East: The Less the Better
Who Really Defeated ISIS: Obama or Trump?
The UAE’s Mars Mission Seeks to Bring Hope to More Places Than the Red Planet
Coronavirus: The Middle East’s Lessons Not Learnt and Missed Opportunities
The Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri: How It Happened and Why It Matters
Modi’s Solution for India’s Unemployment Crisis: Expanding the Government Workforce
Hindu Yuva Vahini: Inside Yogi Adityanath’s Hindutva Militia
Amazon’s Troubles With Reliance and Future Retail Showcase India FDI Risk
India’s ‘Accidental’ Firing of a Missile Into Pakistan Is Serious Cause for Alarm
SpaceX: Crew Dragon is Returning to Earth – Here’s When to Hold Your Breath
The UAE’s Mars Mission Seeks to Bring Hope to More Places Than the Red Planet
SpaceX Astronaut Launch: Here’s the Rocket Science It Must Get Right
SpaceX Reaches for Milestone in Spaceflight – A Private Company Launches Astronauts Into Orbit
India Appears to Fail in Bid to Land on South Pole of Moon With Chandrayaan-2 Mission
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) continues its downward slide in 2022 as spending on new projects declines and Chinese...
Uganda's airport expansion deal with China is yet another cautionary tale about Chinese lending.
Studies reveal that the true amount of sovereign debt owed by recipients of Chinese lending is vastly underreported.
Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.
The debt alarm being set off by international debt management organizations is exaggerated.
Iran’s attractiveness to Central Asian nations increases the Islamic republic’s importance to the Belt and Road, China’s infrastructure, transportation and...
What do these three things have in common: a Kyrgyz gold mine, a Malaysian Ponzi scheme, and canned camel milk?
The Kyrgyz government rushed a tender. It didn’t go well.
China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2013. The BRI...
China is exporting its model of invasive, all-encompassing surveillance to Central Asia, often for free.