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22 articles matching the search query.
Uyghurs in Afghanistan fear Taliban buying Huawei surveillance tech
Facial-recognition analytics that China uses to oppress the marginalized peoples of Xinjiang could soon spread through Central Asia.
Violence in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan might sabotage China’s plans to move Middle Eastern oil to Xinjiang
Baloch nationalists and the Taliban are among the militants making China’s Belt and Road rocky.
The fortune of copper under an ancient Buddhist site in Afghanistan that China is supposed to mine
In 2008, the Afghan government and a state-owned Chinese company signed a deal to mine copper at Mes Aynak, just south of Kabul. The Taliban renewed the agreement. So why is the project stalled?
Editor’s note for May 10, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China pushes Belt and Road for Afghanistan with an eye its interests in Central and South Asia
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with top officials from Central and South Asia last week. While China’s influence in the region is growing, so are its security concerns.
China and other neighbors fear instability in Afghanistan
China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran are losing trust in the Taliban’s ability to stop the expansion of militant groups in Afghanistan. For Beijing, its biggest fear is that instability will spill over into Xinjiang.
Islamic State suicide attack at Afghan Foreign Ministry kills five when Chinese delegation was supposed to visit
A suicide bombing outside the Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul has left at least five dead and scores wounded. It hasn’t even been a month since the Islamic State launched a similar attack targeting Chinese nationals at a hotel in Afghanistan’s capital.
Afghanistan inks an oil deal with China, but the Taliban and Beijing don’t really trust each other
The Taliban-led administration has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in northern Afghanistan. But recent attacks on Chinese nationals and other marks of instability will likely make Beijing proceed cautiously.
Rumors swirl in Kabul over attack on Chinese-operated hotel
There’s something happening in Afghanistan, but what it is ain’t exactly clear.
Editor’s note for Monday, December 12, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Editor’s note for Monday, August 29, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Editor’s Note for Thursday, February 10, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Evergande’s CEO, and more.
China ‘deeply concerned’ about Uyghur militants in Afghanistan, ambassador says
Zhang Jun, China’s envoy to the UN, raised concerns over a Security Council report on Afghanistan-based terrorism. The Uyghur militant group that Beijing is particularly concerned about, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), is not considered to be an organized threat by the U.S.
Editor’s note for Thursday, October 28, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Beijing is financing “the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan’s police” to counter terrorism, but it is not a military base; Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls for the international community to help Afghanistan’s development; the Cyberspace Administration of China makes another call for a “civilized internet”.
China to finance counter-terrorism base for Tajikistan
According to new reports, China is going to build a military base in Tajikistan, and take control of another one. There is no official confirmation yet, but the move shows how much Beijing is worrying about instability from Afghanistan.
China opposes U.S. sanctions on Ethiopia and Afghanistan as humanitarian crises worsen
Since mid-August, flows of foreign aid have been interrupted to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region and to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The U.S. has threatened sanctions to try to pressure a resolution to the Ethiopia conflict, and is reluctant to lift restrictions on the Taliban. China has objected to all foreign sanctions, calling them unilateral interference.
The fog of words: Kabul 2021, Beijing 1949
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban reminded some nationalistic Chinese commenters of the victory of the People’s Liberation Army in 1949. They have a point, argues the noted Sinologist Geremie R. Barmé.
Soul-searching in Taiwan after Afghan fiasco, but is it just ‘immature bedwetting’?
“We can’t rely on the U.S.,” said a senior official from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on condition of anonymity. Despite the U.S. and Taiwanese governments publicly resisting the comparison — and many analysts poo-pooing it — the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan and its dramatic aftermath has fueled fresh doubts in Taipei about American security guarantees.
‘Not the outcome China wanted’: Why a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan makes Beijing anxious
Beijing is happy to bash any failure of U.S. foreign policy, as it has in Afghanistan. But the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, an organization that China does not fully trust, risks heightening security concerns for Chinese interests in the region.
China makes a deal with the Taliban
As the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Chinese Foreign Minister met a high-level delegation from the Taliban seeking reassurances of stability.
