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History has an uncanny habit of mocking long-term predictions. Thirty years ago, in the mid-1990s, few economists imagined that China would become the world's manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for nearly a third of global industrial output. Equally, few believed India, then still wrestling with the after-effects of its 1991 balance-of-payments crisis, would emerge as one of the world's fastest-growing major economies and the fourth largest by GDP.

Donald Trump turned NATO's Ankara summit into a one-man show - reviving Iran hostilities, threatening Spain, demanding Greenland, and needling allies - while Secretary-General Mark Rutte's flattery-and-spending strategy kept the alliance intact. The summit exposed a NATO that survives not through unity, but through the careful, anxious management of one man's moods.

LONDON: NATO leaders abasing themselves before Donald Trump in Ankara undermine claims that the military spending splurge makes us more independent of Washington.

During the recently partially concluded US-Iran war, Iran and its proxies in Iraq have conducted over 850 missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Iran launched thousands of projectiles at Israel and the Gulf states, which received wider international attention. However, the attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by Iranians and their proxies have received less attention.

NEW YORK: A spectre is haunting Donald Trump—the spectre of communism. Over back-to-back holiday weekend speeches marking the country’s 250th anniversary, the president delivered what amounted to a two-part anti-communist sermon, casting Karl Marx, the Communist Party USA, and the country’s fast-growing democratic socialist movement as existential threats to the republic.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Two hundred and fifty years after thirteen rebellious colonies declared that they would no longer submit to the British Crown, Americans marked the nation's semiquincentennial on July 4 with an extravaganza of fireworks, military flypasts, concerts, parades and remembrance that stretched from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean.

Suddenly, there is a new twist in Bangladesh politics. For a change, it comes as a puzzle for the Turkiye-Pakistan axis that is playing an increasingly assertive anti-Indian role in Bangladesh. Bucking Bangladeshi' media's usually hostile coverage of India, analysts are asking critical questions about the past record and present motives of Turkiye in the context of its present engagement with hard core Islamists forces in Bangladesh.

China’s newly enacted "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" marks a definitive shift from managing diversity to enforcing homogeneity. By legally institutionalising the assimilation of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities, Beijing aims to replace distinct cultural, linguistic and religious identities with a singular, state-defined consciousness loyal to the Communist Party.

NEW YORK: In 1965, a new law scrapped America's whites-only immigration quota system, and the trickle of Indians into the United States began the slow climb toward becoming a flood.

NEW YORK: Two hundred and fifty years ago this July 4th, a group of colonial merchants, lawyers, and planters put their names to a piece of parchment that shook the world. They declared, in the most radical language their age could imagine, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed—and that when any government becomes destructive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.