The latest draconian decree issued by the Taliban on Monday was a gradual media ban on all images of living things in news coverage. Repression of the media and civil rights may be even harsher under the Taliban than under the...
Three years after the Chinese government’s cautiously supportive stance toward the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to Chinese netizens blasting their government for being “Taliban in spirit,” China has maintained its...
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...
This week, many Chinese netizens, like the rest of the world, have been fixating on a crisis-stricken Afghanistan. The Chinese government has reiterated that it would not “interfere with Afghanistan’s internal affairs,” and that...
A Taliban spokesperson’s claim that China is a “friend” incited an online furore after nationalist Chinese media figures shared the statement approvingly. “We have been to China many times and we have good relations with them,”...
At Reuters, Gul Yousufzai and Saad Sayeed report that armed men in Quetta, the provincial capital...
President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the Middle East signals a willingness to revise...
Earlier this week, Radio Free Asia reported that police in Xinjiang had killed 17...
Since 2012, China has been slowly but steadily increasing diplomatic engagement with Afghanistan—a...
In his in-depth profile of Chinese president Xi Jinping at The New Yorker this week, Evan Osnos...
Beijing has been increasing engagement with Afghanistan since Xi Jinping became president in 2012,...
From Pakistan, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced on Thursday that President Xi...
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.”...
In order to promote assimilation, authorities plan to send a steady flow of Uyghurs to live and...
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