Sayeed Ahmed

The China containment policy has taken deep roots following Kennan’s anti-Soviet postulations.

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.

Beijing has control over a vital resource essential for weapons, petroleum and electronics.

Taiwanese fabrication plants dominate the semiconductor fabrication or foundry market, earning over 60 percent of global revenue.

The incumbent superpower is now ominously sliding towards a military confrontation with the rising one.

It could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe that the world can’t afford

Has this above-the-law institution lost relevance in today’s world?

The last decade has witnessed a spectacular boom in Turkiye’s defence industry.

Technologies are getting more affordable with time, allowing farmers in Bangladesh to adopt Agriculture 4.0, which offers much greater efficiency and production potential.

Commemorating Europe Day, European mission heads in Bangladesh jointly penned an opinion piece published by The Daily Star on May 9.

But it exposes Washington’s desperation, typical of a declining power

I was watching the BBC during the US’ 2003 Iraq invasion when one statement especially caught my attention.

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

In 1985, at the height of the Cold War, Hollywood produced a movie called “Rocky IV”, a typical good-American-bad-Russian story.

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.

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.

American geographer Jared Diamond makes an interesting point in his bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”

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.

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.

The world has seen more changes in the last two years than in the previous two decades. The ongoing pandemic has taught us the hard way that everything we hold dear or take for granted is actually fragile and transient.