This week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Beijing for a three-day visit with top Chinese officials, including Chairman Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The visit enabled Xi to upgrade bilateral relations with...
In a surprise deal facilitated by China on Friday, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced that they would resume their diplomatic relations. The deal is a breakthrough for the two Middle Eastern rivals, who will reopen their embassies...
Peking University bestowed an honorary professorship on the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, during his state visit to Beijing this week. The prevailing reaction on Weibo was outrage, until censors intervened by deleting...
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’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
Beijing this week began dispatching personnel to the Horn of Africa to populate China’s...
At the South China Morning Post, Kristin Huang reports that some Chinese foreign policy experts...
As photographs and video of three-year-old Omran Daqneesh made waves on social media around the...
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...
On Wednesday, the Islamic State announced that they had executed a Chinese and a Norwegian...
As more than four million Syrians flee ongoing civil war, the Chinese government has said the U.S....
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard report that China’s navy has successfully...
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.”...
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