Across the world, from Iran to Sudan, Syria and Venezuela, China has been boosting the military and other capabilities of forces hostile to the NATO powers, led by the U.S. In doing this it is following a time-worn, low-cost, low-visibility strategy of draining the U.S. in particular through feints and jabs, conducted by states and organizations that are in effect proxy players for Chinese aims.read more

Morshed Khan, Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2001 to 2006, was fond of stating that if Bangladesh was India- locked, then Tripura was Bangladesh- locked. Tripura and Bangladesh have a special history- the two share a porous border, which stretches over 800 kilometers. During Bangladesh’s struggle for independence, the people of Tripura welcomed more Bangladeshi refugees per capita into their homes than in any other civil war situation in history.read more