Center for Strategic Communication

Can China Assert Itself in Afghanistan?

by | Sep 1, 2015 | Monitor

A new piece with a Chinese friend looking again at China-Afghanistan relations and trying to establish how Beijing might play a more positive role in the country. Something that looks increasingly complicated nowadays with the current chaos, but I think still remains...

Of royalty and wildlife

by | Aug 6, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — observing with interest the slow turning of the tides ] . That was then: When King George V went to Nepal in 1911, he killed 39 tigers, 18 rhinoceroses and 4 bears. http://t.co/J462ghqHKA pic.twitter.com/qCQzsGFqOy — Anup Kaphle...

Two new collections from Tim Furnish, plus two

by | Jul 31, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — a chance to have Tim Furnish’s recent writings in book form, plus a couple of recent apocalyptic issues bcoz apocalypse hasn’t gone away, oh no ] . Friend, blog friend and colleague Dr Tim Furnish recently tweeted: I have two...

Twice Deceived: the U.S. by Pakistan’s I.S.I.

by | Jul 30, 2015 | Monitor

By Patricia Lee SharpeThe myth holds that Pakistan’s I.S.I. (aka the Interservices Intelligence Agency) is on top of everything.  Its generals are the puppeteers who control Pakistan.If so, the infallible ISI has failed, miserably, at least twice in the last few...