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...
While locally resident Uyghurs account for the majority of the estimated million or more held in...
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a report that...
New reports, based on interviews with former detainees and data collected from official sources,...
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...
Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Central Asia marked a watershed moment in China’s pivot to...
In the past three months alone, China has spent over US$50 billion on energy and infrastructure...
After voicing opposition to a proposed U.S. attack on Syria at the G20 summit in Russia last week,...
Chinese president Xi Jinping has inked several large energy deals in Central Asia this week to...
The New York Time explores China’s expanding influence in the former Soviet nations of Central Asia: Chinese officials see Central Asia as a critical frontier for their nation’s energy security, trade expansion, ethnic...
The Washington Post reports on a backlash against China’s growing presence in Central Asia: As China pushes beyond its borders in search of markets, jobs and a bigger voice in world affairs, a nation that once boasted of...
The Associated Press reports: Bustling trade between China and Kyrgyzstan has slowed to a trickle since deadly violence broke out in Kyrgyzstan, and experts say the crisis could diminish Beijing’s economic clout in the...
From Deutsche Welle: The violence that erupted on Friday between Kyrgyz and Uzbek clans may have been ignited by the escalating tensions between the country’s two dominant ethnic groups but the conditions for the fighting...
An article in Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief looks at the relationship between events in Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang: There is little doubt that the turmoil transpiring in the neighboring Central Asian republic is on the...
From Reuters: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 30 people in Tibet on Monday with a number of people buried in debris, Xinhua news agency said. The victims were found near the epicentre in Gedar township of Damxung...
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