Geopolitical

Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stresses the need for Muslim unity as a Quranic principle during the Islamic Unity Week in Iran.

Muslim voters in key US swing states prefer Jill Stein ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Research Fellow Dr Rahman Yaacob say that like other Southeast Asian states, Malaysia does not view strategic partnerships through a binary lens and argues that Malaysia considers it possible to move closer to China without distancing itself from Australia.

According to Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko, in a recent meeting between his boss Murat Nurtleu and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, the European officials said that “Kazakhstan used to be in the middle of nowhere, and now it is in the middle of everywhere”. The summit in Astana has yet again shown that Kazakhstan continues to emerge as a middle power.

Retired ambassador and author Javid Husain argues that a lack cultural and political awareness with Afghani society and its neighbours, as well as an indiscriminate use of force by US-led NATO forces, which caused huge damage to properties and the loss of innocent lives, including women and children, led to a stunning strategic defeat not seen since Vietnam.

Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov concluded his visit to Afghanistan this week, amid a flurry of trade and investment deals signed between the two countries.

According to Tsinghua University’s National Institute of Strategic Studies Senior Researcher Taihe Think Tank Qian Feng, BRICS New Development Bank should be put to good use and support green infrastructure development for BRICS countries.

Balochistan Think Tank Network Research Officer Ali Abbas discusses the proposed US-Saudi Strategic Alliance Agreement in light of the ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.