China has dedicated significant attention and funding to modernise its communist era military. This has attracted significant global attention with many viewing China’s military ascent as a threat to the status quo

Afghanistan is now officially America’s 21st century Vietnam, but despite this the US is reorienting its presence in order to secure is regional strategic interests

For the moment a Chinese global order remains aspirational despite China getting regular coverage about her growing strength and how she wants to uproot the global order

Both China and Pakistan have for long presented Sino-Pakistan relations as a special relationship that has survived the test of time. But on closer inspection this is not the case