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Wednesday September 27, 2023
Maheen Shafeeq
Maheen Shafeeq

  • August 29, 2023

    BRICS plus six

    In 2001, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC in a research paper, predicting a potential club of emerging economies....

  • July 11, 2023

    Repairing ties

    Since the start of trade wars between the US and China in 2018, the two sides have plunged into a competitive rivalry often quoted as ‘Cold War...

  • May 24, 2023

    Can AI be destructive?

    On May 17, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI – the company that owns ChatGPT – urged for artificial intelligence regulations. He testified before...

  • May 03, 2023

    Is American power waning?

    Analysts have marked the rise of China due to its diplomatic triumph in the Middle East, its growing cosiness with Russia and the downfall of the US...

  • April 09, 2023

    The dual-use dilemma

    Due to the intensifying geopolitical and technological competition, defence and security forces around the world now integrate civilian technology...

  • March 27, 2023

    A perpetual war

    The predictions made at the onset of the Ukraine war were impulsive. Many intelligence reports assumed that Ukraine would fall and Russia was headed...

  • March 20, 2023

    Rekindling relations

    After closed-door negotiations from March 6 to March 10 in Beijing, China, a joint trilateral statement by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced...

  • February 01, 2022

    Resolving conflict

    Amid the US-China tussle, Pakistan has maintained an impartial stance, wisely balancing its relations with the two. It stresses a non-partisan...