On a two-day visit to Islamabad this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to invest $46bn in Pakistan to create the “China-Pakistan economic corridor”, a patchwork of major infrastructure projects linking the two countries. For Beijing, the plans are a step in consolidating its influence in the region, while Pakistan hopes the cash injection …
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Looming over the current British election is the fact that a significant proportion of the electorate say they would vote to leave the EU. The British view the EU in a totally different way to those on the Continent. The British still view the EU as a group of sovereign nations that have transferred important …
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“In 2008, Hillary Clinton wasn’t seen as the candidate of change. Her vote to authorize the Iraq War proved hugely problematic and turned off many progressive primary voters. So how will she make the case in 2016 that she wasn’t able to make in 2008? It’s likely she will emphasise her chance to make history as …
“I believe that God wants everybody to be free. That’s part of my foreign policy”. George W. Bush Be careful what you wish for!
The term American Exceptionalism – the idea that the US is an “exceptional country with a unique place in human history” – was coined in the 1920s by American Leftists who were trying to explain why the US, in apparent contravention of Marxist theory, had not embraced communism. It was intended as a term of …
