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Behind Closed Walls: How Beijing Conceals the Xinjiang Detention System
There is a particular cruelty in disappearing someone and then denying they were ever taken. It leaves families suspended in a kind of unresolvable grief — unable to mourn, unable to hope, unable to act. Across Xinjiang, this has been the experience of countless Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Hui families since the mid-2010s, as China’s…
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The World Must Act: Global Leaders Cannot Stay Silent on Tibet’s Education Crisis
The struggle for educational and linguistic rights in Tibet has become one of the most urgent yet underreported human rights issues of our time. As authorities continue to expand policies that prioritise Mandarin Chinese over Tibetan-language instruction, the future of Tibet’s cultural identity, linguistic heritage, and educational autonomy faces unprecedented challenges. The international community can…
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What a Carrier Can Do That Nothing Else Can: The Case for India’s Third
Recently, China teased in a video an aircraft carrier that is likely to be its fourth and the first one using nuclear power. Strip away the geopolitics for a moment. Set aside the China threat, the Hormuz blockade, the Red Sea crisis, the INS Vikramaditya structural audit, and the industrial arguments about Cochin Shipyard. Ask…
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522 Attacks, 66 Dead: Inside Bangladesh’s Devastating Year of Communal Violence in 2025
On 19 January 2026, Muhammad Yunus posted on social media that his government had investigated 645 incidents involving minorities in Bangladesh during the previous year. Of those, he said, only 71 could be classified as communal in nature. The remaining 574, the government maintained, were ordinary criminal or social disputes — land conflicts, theft, sexual…
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Pipes Over Politics: How the India–Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Became a Lifeline in Times of Crisis
Somewhere beneath the paddy fields and dusty market towns of northern Bangladesh, a steel pipe runs quietly underground. Most people living above it have no idea it exists. But every time a farmer fills his irrigation pump, or a bus pulls out of a depot in Rangpur, or a hospital generator kicks on without interruption…
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From Integration to Elimination: The PLA’s Absorption and Dissolution of the Tibetan Military
China’s dismantling of Tibet’s military marked one of the clearest signs that its promises of autonomy under the 1951 Seventeen-Point Agreement were never intended to be honoured. The Seventeen-Point Agreement publicly framed Tibet’s annexation and integration into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a “peaceful” and “mutually beneficial” arrangement. But this narrative was a…
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IMF Bails You Out, China Arms You Up: Pakistan’s Contradictory Economic Reality
By March 2025, Pakistan’s total public debt had reached Rs 76,007 billion — Rs 76 trillion — of which $87.4 billion was external government debt, according to the State Bank of Pakistan and the Economic Survey 2024-25. The country is on its latest IMF programme, in a succession that spans more than two dozen arrangements…
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From Integration to Elimination: How the PLA Dismantled Tibet’s Military Of all the promises China made in the 1951
Seventeen Point Agreement, Point 8 was perhaps the most consequential—and the most candid about Beijing’s actual intentions. It stated that Tibetan troops would be “reorganised step by step” into the People’s Liberation Army and absorbed into China’s national defence forces. Framed as cooperation, it was in practice a timetable for elimination. At the time of…
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Gwadar’s Moment Is a Mirage: Crisis Traffic Is Not Commercial Destiny
Gwadar’s sudden rise in cargo movement should not be mistaken for the arrival of a durable maritime power. The reported jump to roughly 11,000 containers in April 2026, compared with about 8,300 containers across all of 2025, is striking only because it is so clearly abnormal. It is not evidence that Pakistan has built a…
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EO-3 and the Credibility Deficit: Pakistan’s Space Claims Under OSINT Scrutiny
Pakistan’s launch of EO-3 was presented by official channels as a “major milestone” in national space capability, with the entire government apparatus portraying it as proof of self-reliance, scientific maturity, and technological progress. The satellite was launched from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on 25 April 2026 aboard a Chinese Long March-6 rocket, and official…