Superpower rivalry in space: The invisible battlefield of the Iran war
26 July 2026
As war rages in Iran, an unseen contest in space is redefining military power, surveillance, and global strategic rivalry.
26 July 2026
Was the Iran war inevitable?
4 July 2026
Was the US-Israel-led war on Iran inevitable? If so, why?
4 July 2026
Here’s what China is learning from the US war in Iran
4 May 2026
China is closely studying the US-Iran war, extracting strategic, economic, and technological lessons with far-reaching global implications.
4 May 2026
Myanmar’s Kachin State: The new geopolitical flashpoint in China’s backyard
21 September 2025
The timing could hardly be worse for China. Beijing has spent billions building oil and gas pipelines from Myanmar’s ports to mitigate the risk of shipping through the Malacca Strait.
21 September 2025
The 'six tigers' that drive China's AI geopolitics
19 August 2025
China's four dragons—Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance—play a vital role in nurturing the AI startup ecosystem.
19 August 2025
How the Liangzhu model is challenging Silicon Valley’s AI dominance
29 July 2025
The Liangzhu model benefits from coordinated support from both large corporations and the government.
29 July 2025
How Iran's authoritarian rule became its greatest vulnerability
18 July 2025
The regime's brutality towards its people has created a reservoir of resentment that foreign powers can exploit.
18 July 2025
Operation Rising Lion and its wider fallout in Israel-Iran conflict
2 July 2025
The operation revealed Israel’s strategic shift from traditional methods to a new era of advanced, tech-based intelligence warfare.
2 July 2025
Is space the final frontier of superpower rivalry?
Will it be possible for Washington to stall Beijing’s progress in space technology?
21 October 2022
Kennan’s 1946 ‘Long Telegram’ from Moscow: Is it relevant for Beijing?
The China containment policy has taken deep roots following Kennan’s anti-Soviet postulations.
2 October 2022
China unlikely to make a rash move over Taiwan
Neither the US nor China would prefer a war just now because Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, essential for both, will be among the first casualties of a conflict.
16 September 2022
US controls advanced chips, but China has another card
Beijing has control over a vital resource essential for weapons, petroleum and electronics.
9 September 2022
The Taiwan Question: China-US battle for semiconductor supremacy
Taiwanese fabrication plants dominate the semiconductor fabrication or foundry market, earning over 60 percent of global revenue.
31 August 2022
Peace is good for all, but why do some still prefer conflict?
The incumbent superpower is now ominously sliding towards a military confrontation with the rising one.
12 August 2022
Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: An ominous sign of how the superpower rivalry might unfold
It could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe that the world can’t afford
8 August 2022
We need to talk about the World Bank
Has this above-the-law institution lost relevance in today’s world?
20 July 2022
To Washington’s glee, Ukraine war hits Turkiye’s military ambitions
The last decade has witnessed a spectacular boom in Turkiye’s defence industry.
4 July 2022
Why Bangladesh should adopt Agriculture 4.0
Technologies are getting more affordable with time, allowing farmers in Bangladesh to adopt Agriculture 4.0, which offers much greater efficiency and production potential.
2 June 2022
Europe’s colonial history and double standard
Commemorating Europe Day, European mission heads in Bangladesh jointly penned an opinion piece published by The Daily Star on May 9.
18 May 2022
How Moscow helped Washington win a strategic battle against China
But it exposes Washington’s desperation, typical of a declining power
13 May 2022
Time for another non-aligned movement?
I was watching the BBC during the US’ 2003 Iraq invasion when one statement especially caught my attention.
29 April 2022
To leapfrog, Bangladesh must adopt AI
The year 2019 was a turning point in Bangladesh’s history when it achieved self-sufficiency in rice production, more so considering that rice provides over 70
8 April 2022
Is Ukraine collateral damage for the US?
In 1985, at the height of the Cold War, Hollywood produced a movie called “Rocky IV”, a typical good-American-bad-Russian story.
29 March 2022
Race with the machine
The other day, a technician came over to fix my internet connection. He was a computer science graduate. But this is a job that any vocationally-trained person could do well—it doesn’t require a four-year university degree.
28 February 2022
How to secure jobs amid looming automation
On December 19, The Daily Star published a refreshing story that offered a window into the changing landscape of our job market. Electronics manufacturers, according to the report, are scrambling for graduates from the polytechnic institutes, often recruiting them straight from the campus.
15 January 2022
Can Bangladesh leapfrog into the future with 4IR?
American geographer Jared Diamond makes an interesting point in his bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
27 December 2021
Why Bangladesh should invest in artificial intelligence
In the 1970s, American sociologist and economic historian Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) proposed an approach to view the global economic system as an interplay between three groups of countries: core, semi-periphery, and periphery countries.
11 October 2021
How the US’ War on Terror played out on its social divide
On June 23, 2010, a rocket-propelled grenade shattered the skull of US Army Private First Class Russell Madden in Afghanistan, where he was fighting his country’s war against terror.
14 September 2021