Protest: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King
by James M. Dorsey Protest is back on the front burner.
China
Diverging Gulf Responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang Ripple Across Asia
by James M. Dorsey Recent diametrically opposed responses to repression of Muslims by China, India and other Asian countries highlight deep differences among Gulf states that ripple across Asia. The different responses were evident in Gulf reactions to India’s unilateral… Continue Reading
Security Architecture in the Gulf: Troubled Prospects
by James M. Dorsey Russia, backed by China, hoping to exploit mounting doubts in the Gulf about the reliability of the United States as the region’s sole security guarantor, is proposing a radical overhaul of the security architecture in an… Continue Reading
George Orwell’s 1984 Revisited: The Rise of the Civilizationalists
by James M. Dorsey The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping and others In Europe, Asia and Latin America who are bent on shaping a new world order in their authoritarian and… Continue Reading
Lifeboat Earth
by John Feffer At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for the common good. Thanks to climate change, this metaphor no longer works. Our planet is… Continue Reading