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Xi’s Opening Gambit in 2021

26 January 2021 We first saw a brief glimpse of Jack Ma, that was on 20 January 2021, as if to offer an olive branch of sorts to the incoming Biden Administration. Yet, Xi’s China is not a suitor, trying to woo the US, which could well be Deng’s China back then in the 70s […]

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America China Covid19 Pandemic Geopolitical Strategy Geopolitics

Biden’s Bid

24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]

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China Geopolitical Strategy Geopolitics RealPolitik

Jacked Ma & Hopping Schultz

16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]

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America China Geopolitical Strategy

Dragon Without Fire?

14 January 2021 I want to ask this question about why the Chinese PLAN and PLAAF and PLA suddenly turned quiescent on the SCS seas, including Taiwan Strait, when the USA was so distracted that we would term this as a ‘nation at war with itself’? I was of the view that Chinese moves since […]

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China Geopolitical Strategy Geopolitics

The Sino Indian Casting- Asian Dividend?

20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]

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China Geopolitics

Xinjiang-Chink In China?

23 November 2020 As we study the contours of the conflict in the Caucasus region, the attention of any one who has interest is drawn to the ethnic nature of this conflict. How Turkic people are driving this Azeri effort to take back territories lost in the first Karabakh war of 1990s is not the […]

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