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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Karen DeYoung |Michael Birnbaum |Alexander Ward |Salman Rafi Sheikh
Quotes of the Day:"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."– VoltaireTo handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."– Alexis de Tocqueville1. Trump Tilts Toward a Ukraine Sellout2. Trump’s attack on Zelensky stirs fear of major U.S. shift on Russia3.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
alethonews.com | Salman Rafi Sheikh |John Helmer
Spend More, Expect Little: Trump Offers Taiwan an Uncertain Future By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – January 15, 2025Taiwan faces mounting challenges as the Trump administration reshapes U.S. foreign policy, demanding greater defense spending while signaling reduced military support against China. Trump’s anti-China politics will unlikely translate automatically into more defence cooperation with Taiwan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
journal-neo.su | Salman Rafi Sheikh
Taiwan faces mounting challenges as the Trump administration reshapes U.S. foreign policy, demanding greater defense spending while signaling reduced military support against China. Trump’s anti-China politics will unlikely translate automatically into more defence cooperation with Taiwan.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
qoshe.com | Salman Rafi Sheikh
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
himalmag.com | Salman Rafi Sheikh
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari campaigns on her way to a parliamentary seat in Pakistan’s 2024 general election. Most women who reach Pakistan’s legislative bodies, whether via election of direct nomination, rely heavily on links to powerful political families like the Bhutto-Zardaris. In Pakistan’s last general election, in February 2024, Suriya Bibi became the first woman to be elected to the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwah from Chitral, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
asiasentinel.com | Salman Rafi Sheikh
By: Salman Rafi SheikhWestern leaders appear to have granted hopeful approval of the armed forces that led to the fall of Syria, and news organizations have written of their acceptance by the country’s people, beleaguered after decades of dictatorship by the al-Assad family since 1971. Rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, according to the BBC, has dropp…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
geopol.pt | Salman Rafi Sheikh
A saída do regime de al-Assad da Síria, mais de uma década após o início da ofensiva de “mudança de regime” apoiada por Washington, abriu uma nova frente de rivalidade geopolítica entre Israel e a TurquiaAmbos os estados pretendem utilizar a mudança de regime para fazer avançar os seus interesses regionais específicos – e muitas vezes contraditórios –, criando a possibilidade de uma instabilidade generalizada na Síria e não só. Turquia vs.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
journal-neo.su | Salman Rafi Sheikh
The eventual exit of the al-Assad regime from Syria more than a decade after the initiation of the Washington-backed “regime change” offensive has opened a new front of geopolitical rivalry between Israel and Turkey. Both states aim to utilise the regime change in ways to advance their specific – and often conflicting – regional interests, creating the possibility of widespread instability in Syria and beyond. Turkey vs. IsraelBoth Israel and Turkey have benefitted from the fall of al-Assad.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
journal-neo.su | Salman Rafi Sheikh
With the US president-elect Donald Trump threatening to impose 100 per cent tariffs on BRICS countries willing to create and join the BRICS currency framework, he is quite likely to end up accelerating the process of de-dollarization, putting an end to American financial hegemony. Only de-weaponizing the USD can halt this process. The BRICS Currency vs. TrumpThe US is very well known for weaponizing its currency to meet foreign policy goals.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
journal-neo.su | Salman Rafi Sheikh
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria may have been a geopolitical loss for Iran (and Russia), but the fact that Islamists have overthrown the regime threatens both Iran and Arab states, creating prospects for their cooperation in the near future and minimising whatever gains the ‘winners’ of this ‘end-game’ many have made. The ‘Winners’ and the ‘losers’There are clear ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
