China’s President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on April 28, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Madoka Ikegami-Pool/Getty Images) The United States and China are locked in a new era of great power competition, the implications of which are being felt […]
Pakistan: Between the United States and China
A key unintended consequence of the longest war in U.S. history is Pakistan’s growing alignment with China. After decades of being a U.S. ally, Islamabad is increasingly dependent on Beijing — and at a time when China is emerging as Washington’s biggest foreign policy challenge. No other nation is perhaps as strategically sandwiched between the […]
Gandhi’s Role In the Partition of India
When the All-India Muslim League was established in Dhaka in 1906 by leading Muslim figures from around the country, India had just begun to slowly transition to self-rule from the British Raj. From the outset, the political party’s primary goal was to protect the interests of India’s large Muslim minority, especially its elite. Its initial strategy was […]