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Polar sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, potentially freeing up access to faster shipping routes and vast natural resources in the Arctic. China has its eyes on those lucrative opportunities through Russia.
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.
This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore’s UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the...
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Kishore Mahbubani about how the U.S. could appeal to the countries of ASEAN more effectively by not framing its contest with China as one between democracy and authoritarianism and not trying to force countries to choose sides.
There has been much hand-wringing over China’s top diplomat’s visit to Moscow on Wednesday, just two days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But it would be wrong to say this visit necessarily portends a closer China-Russia relationship.
Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the acclaimed book Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire, has spent decades researching China’s power and presence in Central Asia. Why is Xinjiang so valuable to China’s plans in the region, and what role does the Belt and Road Initiative play?
Two years of stalled talks and months of silence from China have led Uganda to terminate a $2.3 billion railway contract, as Beijing changes its overseas financing model to avoid billions in debt defaults.
As Turkey heads into an election season, officials are promising that the country will not extradite Uyghurs to China. Can they be trusted?
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.