As ties between the two countries plummeted over the last three years, the Taliban regime intensified its outreach to India. The decline in Pakistan’s influence also created more space for India to engage. On April 27, five days after the Pahalgam attack, an Indian delegation led by the Joint Secretary of the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran (PAI)
A Russian offensive in Kharkiv is also highly probable. In this effort, Russian combat formations may double down on their force-on-force and force-to-terrain ratio advantages to wear down the Ukrainian military in a prolonged war of attrition. Completing the invasion of eastern Ukraine will almost certainly be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
of “anti-Hungarian propaganda”, and the expulsion of two Ukrainian embassy staff in Budapest that it accused of spying under diplomatic cover. Kyiv immediately reciprocated by expelling two Hungarian diplomats. Ukraine had also been due to send a high-level representative to the Budapest Energy and Security Talks (BEST) – a NATO-sponsored sec
Xi envisions the military as the key instrument to assert Beijing’s claims over Taiwan, dominate the South China Sea, and cement China’s role as the region’s paramount power. However, that ambition is currently facing a sobering reality. If Chinese weapons systems falter during battle and senior military leadership remains plagued by opacity
The tariffs announced on U.S. trading partners in early April may have already slowed global trade in physical goods, based on preliminary container vessel departure data from Bloomberg. Less global trade will lead to fewer shipments of goods on vessels as well as fewer trucking deliveries and could affect employment and leisure travel as well. All