Interpreting Russian FM Lavrov’s Latest Remarks About Pakistan By Andrew Korybko They generated a lot of media attention in South Asia but there’s nothing new in what he said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked during a recent press conference about how… Read More ›
Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Made Some Predictions About Trump, China, And Eastern Europe By Andrew Korybko The outcome of Trump’s continued struggle with the “deep state” will reverberate across the world. Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who ran the FSB for… Read More ›
The Russian-Iranian Partnership Might Be A Game-Changer, But Only For Gas, Not Geopolitics By Andrew Korybko The future of their strategic partnership is bright, but in order to fully appreciate its prospects, observers must acknowledge its non-military nature instead of continuing… Read More ›
Why Central Asia And Russia Are Unlikely To Rely More On Pakistani Ports For Foreign Trade By Andrew Korybko All in all, while it makes economic sense for them to do so, it’s not politically feasible at present. The Pakistani Energy… Read More ›
2025 Might Be A Tumultuous Year For South Asia By Andrew Korybko The future of Indo-US relations under Trump 2.0 will ultimately play the largest role in determining the degree of tumult that South Asia experiences next year. South Asia is… Read More ›
The Panama Canal And Greenland Are Trump’s For The Taking If He Really Wants Them By Andrew Korybko MAGA 2.0 is poised to be more geopolitically assertive than MAGA 1.0. Trump threatened that the US might retake control of the Panama Canal if… Read More ›
Russia And Pakistan Will Comprehensively Expand Cooperation In The Resource Sector By Andrew Korybko Pakistan wants to reduce its disproportionate dependence on China, hence why it prefers for Russia to modernize its resource infrastructure instead of China, which aligns with US… Read More ›
China Will Struggle To Bring Pakistan And The Taliban Back Together By Andrew Korybko Here’s the full interview that I gave to VOA China’s FM Shakil on this subject, excerpts of which were published in their report on 8 December titled… Read More ›
China Would Be Taking A Major Risk If It Deployed PMCs To Myanmar To Protect BRI Projects By Andrew Korybko The US could do to China in Myanmar what it’s currently doing to Russia in Ukraine. The latest phase of Myanmar’s… Read More ›
Assessing The Feasibility Of A Russian Gas Pipeline To China Through Kazakhstan By Andrew Korybko The only reason why Kazakhstan is being considered either as a complement or an alternative to Mongolia as a transit state to China is for political… Read More ›
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