Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, Europe, North America July 30, 2022
TO BIBI OR NOT TO BIBI
GABI MITCHELL, JERUSALEM It’s Groundhog Day in Israel. I doubt many Israelis have seen the 1990s classic Groundhog Day.
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TO BIBI OR NOT TO BIBI
Asia-Pacific, Business & Economics, Current Affairs, Economy
THE IRAN MESS
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CHINA’S WEB
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, Europe, Middle East
THE QUAD IN FOCUS
BALOCHISTAN: ASIA’S NEXT HEADACHE
UPDATE FROM AN AFGHAN MOTHER
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America
IS WAR AHEAD IN THE PACIFIC?
AN AFGHAN FAMILY WRITES
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, Europe, North America July 30, 2022
TO BIBI OR NOT TO BIBI
GABI MITCHELL, JERUSALEM It’s Groundhog Day in Israel. I doubt many Israelis have seen the 1990s classic Groundhog Day.
Asia-Pacific, Business & Economics, Current Affairs, Economy July 15, 2022
THE IRAN MESS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR AND CLAIRE BERLINSKI The US sought to halt Iran’s nuclear program, weaken its economy, isolate it politically, and retain its influence over the Middle East. But Iran’s centrifuges are still spinning—and now the US has brought itself to the edge of the cliff.
Asia-Pacific, Business & Economics, Current Affairs, Economy June 3, 2022
CHINA’S WEB
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI China’s domination of the world’s supply chains lets it call the shots—and the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework isn’t going to change that.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, Europe, Middle East March 22, 2022
THE QUAD IN FOCUS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Something’s cooking in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Central to any new geopolitical calculus in the region is India, whose strengths and weaknesses have never been in sharper focus.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs November 29, 2021
BALOCHISTAN: ASIA’S NEXT HEADACHE
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The last thing the world needs is a fierce new multinational battlefront on the borderlands of South and Central Asia. But it’s getting one anyway.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs November 21, 2021
UPDATE FROM AN AFGHAN MOTHER
A MOTHER, KABUL Recently, readers of the Cosmopolitan Globalist contributed generously to a fundraiser for this family of five Afghan girls. They are still in grave danger. Their mother asked me to share this update with you.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America October 13, 2021
IS WAR AHEAD IN THE PACIFIC?
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The great powers are playing a high-risk shadow game. But such games have a nasty way of coming out of the shadows—with terrible consequences.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs September 27, 2021
AN AFGHAN FAMILY WRITES
A FATHER, KABUL I’m writing this letter from Kabul. I am the head of a family of eight: myself, my wife, my five daughters, and my son. My daughters have become teenage prisoners.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America September 27, 2021
TIME SWOONS FOR THE TALIBAN
NERVANA MAHMOUD, ENGLAND By naming the co-founder of the Taliban one of the world’s 100 most influential leaders, Time Magazine reveals its contempt for Muslims and shows how successfully Islamists have brainwashed gullible Western elites.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, Europe, North America September 18, 2021
A RAUKUS IN THE PACIFIC
ROBIN HÄGGBLOM, HELSINKI France and Australia are both right and wrong in this quarrel, while the US’s behavior just seems strange: Where were their diplomats in all of this? Why didn’t they forestall this imbroglio?
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America August 28, 2021
THE FALL OF KABUL
THE COSMOPOLITAN GLOBALISTS An exchange of letters among the editors about the West’s defeat in Afghanistan.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs August 22, 2021
CENTRAL ASIA RETURNS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The US and EU have neglected Central Asia for the past three decades. Russia and China have quietly filled the gap with investments and security ties. They are more than happy to work together to further their joint interests in the region.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs August 19, 2021
IRAN’S DEADLY FIFTH WAVE
ALI KHEYROLLAHI, LONDON Iran is in the grip of a deadly fifth wave. A mere four percent of its population is fully vaccinated. Why did the government fail to import vaccines?
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America August 17, 2021
BIDEN BETRAYS AFGHANISTAN
MICHAEL FUMENTO, MANILA It didn’t have to be this way. We could easily have blunted the Taliban’s attack. Our Afghan allies just needed to know we wouldn’t abandon them-but that’s just what we did, leaving those who risked the most for us to have their heads lopped off.
Asia-Pacific, Current Affairs, North America August 10, 2021
THE AFGHANISTAN DISASTER
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Afghanistan’s past remains its present and its future. Beyond the obvious humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes, Afghanistan’s collapse is a geopolitical disaster in progress, threatening not only its neighbors but every major global power.