JAMES DORSEY
The Pendulum Gradually Swings Towards International Engagement with the Taliban
The European Union is close to reopening its mission in the Afghan capital and offering member states to use it as an operational base...
Breaking With the Past: China Hints At Greater Political Engagement in Middle East
China also appears to be debating whether it could help countering US efforts to force Gulf states to restructure their relations with the People’s...
Syria Lures But Will China Bite?
James M Dorsey | Clarion India
CHINA looms large as a potentially key player alongside Russia and Iran in President Bashas al-Assad’s post-war Syria. With...
Will Gulf States Learn From Their Success in Handling the Pandemic?
By and large, Gulf states garnered public trust with degrees of transparency in their handling of the pandemic and its associated economic crisis. Retaining...
Global Response to Coronavirus Exposes Governments’ Fault Lines
Autocrats, authoritarians, and democratically elected leaders alike have failed in confronting the Coronavirus in a timely fashion and thus lessen the human and economic...
