In 2013, Xi Jinping introduced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and called on state media to “tell China’s story well.” Almost ten years later, the CCP’s external propaganda apparatus is struggling to present a positive image...
Over the past two weeks, China has increased its engagement with countries in the Global South, partially in response to the war in Ukraine. China’s position on the war has been one of feigned neutrality in the form of “rock...
China is growing its security presence in Central Asia through strategic military bases located in Tajikistan, a central Asian republic bordered on the south by Afghanistan, and on the east by China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August was never an ideal scenario for the Chinese government, and it was even worse for Afghanistan’s Uyghur minority. In the security vacuum left by the U.S. withdrawal, China is now...
President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the Middle East signals a willingness to revise...
Since 2012, China has been slowly but steadily increasing diplomatic engagement with Afghanistan—a...
Beijing has been increasing engagement with Afghanistan since Xi Jinping became president in 2012,...
Over the past two years, China has been slowly increasing its engagement with Afghanistan, a...
This week’s Economist examines Kazakhstan’s part in building a new trans-Eurasian “Silk Rail.”...
Newly elected Afghan president Ashraf Ghani arrived in Beijing today, where he was welcomed by Xi...
While the U.S. is set to withdraw 34,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year, some Chinese foreign policy wonks have been pushing for China to “march west” to fill the void that the U.S.’s “pivot to...
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