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Naval Base or Trade Hub? Gwadar’s Identity Crisis Deepens With Every New Attack
Pakistan’s military said on July 8 that three militant attacks since July 6—near Quetta, at a police post guarding the Mangi Dam project in Ziarat, and on an army convoy on the N-25 highway near Bela—had killed 42 police, army personnel, and civilians, while security forces killed 54 militants in the operations that followed. That…
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Urumqi’s Bloody Blueprint: How July 5, 2009 Became The CCP’s Template For Uyghur Genocide
On the evening of 5 July 2009, several thousand Uyghurs gathered at Urumqi’s Grand Bazaar to demand an investigation into the deaths of two Uyghur factory workers killed days earlier in a brawl with Han Chinese colleagues at a toy factory in Guangdong province. The Guangdong clash followed a rumour, later dismissed by Chinese officials,…
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Beijing’s Legal Weapon for Forced Minority Assimilation
China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, passed by the National People’s Congress on 12 March 2026 and taking effect on 01 July, marks a significant escalation in Beijing’s decades-long campaign to assimilate its ethnic minorities. Unlike earlier administrative directives and informal policies, this law gives Beijing’s assimilation drive the force and cover of formal legislation,…
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The Teesta Trap: How Chinese Loan Architecture Could Quietly Mortgage Bangladesh’s Budget Sovereignty
When Bangladesh’s interim government revived negotiations for the Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project (TRCMRP) with Beijing in early 2025, it framed the decision pragmatically: India had repeatedly failed to deliver a water-sharing agreement, leaving Dhaka with few credible alternatives for one of its most critical rivers. The origins of that frustration trace back…
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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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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…