Credit: Daily Reckoning Australia By James M. Dorsey Financial injections by Qatar and possibly China may resolve Turkey’s immediate...

By James M. Dorsey A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be...

By James M. Dorsey Increased Pakistani dependence on China to help it avert resorting to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid a...

By James M. Dorsey Steep commercial terms for China’s investment in infrastructure projects across Eurasia related to its Belt and Road...

Credit: Siddhant Gupta / The Print By James M. Dorsey The outcome of a power struggle in the Maldives that has sparked declaration of an...

Source: Wikimedia Commons By James M. Dorsey If week-long anti-government protests in Iran exposed the Islamic republic’s deep-seated...

By James M. Dorsey The six-month-old Gulf crisis has expanded to the Horn Africa, potentially fuelling simmering regional conflicts....

By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia, in a first move to pressure mostly Muslim states to join its campaign against Qatar, has persuaded six...