Mattis Afghanistan, Pakistan and China a disturbing insight on October 9, 2017US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis’s recent remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee on CPEC and the Chinese One Belt and One Road initiative provide a disturbing insight to President Trump’s Afghanistan and South Asia policy. Invoking the China factor in the US Regional Strategy is clearly unhelpful. Trump’s strategy of continued and indefinite US […]
Mattis Afghanistan, Pakistan and China a disturbing insight on October 9, 2017US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis’s recent remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee on CPEC and the Chinese One Belt and One Road initiative provide a disturbing insight to President Trump’s Afghanistan and South Asia policy. Invoking the China factor in the US Regional Strategy is clearly unhelpful. Trump’s strategy of continued and indefinite US […]
Darkest before dawn: steering Pakistan’s foreign policy on August 23, 2017Global interdependence warrants multilateral cooperation. A high moral ground and a policy framework predicated on principles remain two guiding features that must inform Pakistan’s foreign policy worldview going forward. But on Pakistan’s 70th anniversary, both the neighbourhood and region at large stand at a perilous crossroad, their all-pervasiveness restlessness a sign of the times. The […]