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...
Under Xi Jinping, archaeology has become yet another domain through which the Chinese government has increasingly sought to expand its geopolitical influence. Evidence—whether objective or subjective—of ancient Chinese...
Tensions rose in the wake of the G7 summit last weekend, as China weathered accusations of being an economic and security threat, while countering with its own similar accusations against the West. The meeting of the...
This week, Xi Jinping traveled to Central Asia in his first trip abroad in over two and a half years. On Wednesday, he visited Kazakhstan, and on Thursday and Friday he visited Uzbekistan to attend the summit of the Shanghai...
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...
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a report that...
Late last month, two Chinese nationals were reportedly kidnapped in Quetta, Bolochistan, Pakistan,...
At Reuters, Gul Yousufzai and Saad Sayeed report that armed men in Quetta, the provincial capital...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key component of Xi Jinping’s ambitious...
Over the weekend, Beijing hosted an international conference to promote its “Belt and...
At the South China Morning Post, Kristin Huang reports that some Chinese foreign policy experts...
The Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan was attacked on August 30, when a car armed with explosives...
The Chinese embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was attacked on Tuesday when a car armed with an...
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...
At The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi looks at President Xi Jinping’s stopover this week in...
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