Central Asia

Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words erupted between Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban [...]

While the world has been rallied to the moral and humanitarian case to support the Rohingyas in their flight from ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar state and their plight in Bangladesh, let us not [...]

While a fractured G7 captured the headlines, the main economic action is elsewhere  – as shown by this report on the Astana and St Petersburg Economic Forum By Pepe Escobar, 6 June 2018 [...]