Pakistan Project Faces Security, Rights Concerns
China and Pakistan have enjoyed close diplomatic relations since the two modern nations’...
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China’s New Grand Strategy for the Middle East
President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the Middle East signals a willingness to revise...
Afghan Peace Envoy Met Taliban in Secret China Talks
Since 2012, China has been slowly but steadily increasing diplomatic engagement with Afghanistan—a...
Exploring a New Role: Peacemaker in Afghanistan
Over the past two years, China has been slowly increasing its engagement with Afghanistan, a...
China’s New Silk Road Ambitions
This week’s Economist examines Kazakhstan’s part in building a new trans-Eurasian “Silk Rail.”...
Militants Say Chinese Tourist Killed for Revenge
On Tuesday, a Chinese woman walking on the street in Peshawar, Pakistan, was shot and killed. At the time, the motive for the shooting was not known. Now a faction of the Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility, saying the...
Chinese Copper Mine Will Crush Ancient Afghan Buddhist Site
The Los Angeles Times reports the impending destruction of a 5th Century Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan to make way for a Chinese copper mine. “As an archaeologist, of course I’m worried about this,” said...
‘Epicenter’ of Terror Gets Chinese Dam in First Step to Stability
Bloomberg reports on the ongoing construction of Pakistan’s Gomal Zam dam by Sinohydro, former employer of Hu Jintao: …China’s Sinohydro Corp., is completing the biggest building project in Pakistan’s tribal region...
Taliban Free Captive Chinese Engineer in Pakistan
In a gesture of goodwill to accompany their 10-day ceasefire with the Pakistani government, Taliban insurgents in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday released Long Xiaowei, one of two Chinese engineers kidnapped in late August. ...
Chinese Taliban Hostage Escapes
Pakistan-China relations have been in the news lately with President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to China. However, the fate of two Chinese engineers kidnapped in Pakistan in August has received scant attention. But CNN is...
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