BRI: a historic opportunity
CHINA’S president Xi Jinping hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 26–27 — 125 countries and 40 international organisations have joined the Belt and Road Initiative.
SRI LANKA BLASTS Terrorism targets another Chinese ally
Sri Lanka’s violence is an artificial construct carried out by a tiny minority of extremists on either side of an equally artificial ethnoreligious divide. The nation and the region must unite in purpose.
China is watching Western democracy eat itself
Over the next few months, the world's current and previous superpowers are set to undergo enormous self-harm.
15 killed as Sri Lanka forces raid Islamist hideout
Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday.
China's billion-dollar Belt and Road party: Who's in and who's out
Leaders from across the world have arrived in Beijing for the second Belt and Road Forum, drawn by the possibility of billions of dollars in Chinese funding for infrastructure projects.
Sri Lanka bombers' mentor is dead, but his memory still stokes fear
Zahran Hashim had preached hate and violence for years. On Easter Sunday, at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, he put those words into action.
The dilemma of Imran Khan
PAKISTAN’S enigmatic prime minister Imran Khan, charismatic and outspoken, has, it seems, tasked himself with rewriting the rule book on relations inside the Islamic world.
PepsiCo is suing farmers in India for growing the potatoes it uses in Lays chips
PepsiCo is suing four farmers in India for copyright infringement, claiming they were growing a variety of potatoes trademarked by the company for exclusive use in its Lays potato chips.
Trump admin aiming for major nuclear deal with Russia and China
President Donald Trump has his eyes on a new foreign policy prize: a grand nuclear deal with Russia and China, that he sees as a potential signature foreign policy achievement. However, some arms control experts are concerned the effort could backfire.
Lethal bungling: Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings
THE number of dead is bound to rise, already standing at more than three hundred. The bombs, worn by seven suicide bombers, struck at three churches during the period of Easter Sunday
