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Is it a post ideological world? Feature lekhaka-Balbir Punj Gradually, in this post Cold War era, immediate national interests are overwhelmingly superseding commitment to creeds and declared faiths, which have defined one's identity for aeons. Recently two important events, separate at the surface but with a common theme of global security running, took place within three days of each other. In both, China was a common factor. On March 10, China successfully brokered a détente between two estranged Islamic nations - Saudi Arabia and Iran, with ramifications on who would control the levers of the Islamic world. The importance of...
