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From CGTN’s studios in Nairobi to TikTok’s algorithmic control, Beijing’s global media campaign is reshaping information ecosystems. Through propaganda networks, Confucius Institutes, and digital manipulation, China is exporting its censorship model worldwide, challenging democratic values and press freedom across continents.

The 1962 Sino-Indian War redefined Asia’s security landscape, exposing China’s expansionist ambitions and creating a lasting fault line across the Himalayas. Six decades later, the legacy of betrayal, mistrust, and strategic rivalry continues to shape India’s defense posture and the broader Indo-Pacific balance of power.

Aksai Chin, a desolate plateau between India and China, remains one of Asia’s most contested frontiers. Born from unresolved colonial boundaries, the region became the flashpoint of the 1962 war and continues to shape the geopolitics of the Himalayas. Decades later, military standoffs, infrastructure races, and competing territorial claims reveal that the conflict over Aksai Chin is far from over; it's an unfinished war still defining India-China relations.

The 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking spurred a multilateral maritime effort that turned the Gulf of Aden from a piracy hotspot into a corridor of safety. Today, Somalia’s growing web of bilateral defense pacts risks undoing that progress. Commodore Ranjit Rai (Retd) warns that while bilateral deals promise quick gains, they may fracture hard-won coordination, undermining security, sovereignty, and stability across vital sea lanes.

Hong Kong’s swift passage of Article 23 marks the institutionalisation of repression. Once a city of defiance, it now enforces laws that criminalise dissent locally and abroad, targeting even the diaspora. With civil society dismantled and opposition silenced, Hong Kong has transformed from financial hub to authoritarian outpost, an ominous warning of how quickly freedoms can collapse under the guise of national security.

Somalia’s new defence cooperation MoU with Pakistan may look like routine training and support, but echoes of Hambantota raise concerns of sovereignty traded for dependency. With Chinese influence in the background, the pact could evolve from naval aid into strategic concessions, leaving Mogadishu vulnerable in a region of global maritime consequence.

China’s rapid infrastructure build-up along the LAC is reshaping Himalayan security. Roads, dual-use villages, and advanced rail links, framed as “development,” are in fact military tools of the PLA to consolidate territory and accelerate mobilization. This weaponised expansion erodes crisis-management mechanisms, heightens the risk of clashes, and leaves India with no choice but to respond in kind, deepening instability in one of the world’s most sensitive borders.

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