As Pakistan and China arranged the Afghan Foreign Minister’s visit to Oslo, Norway, to meet with European Union officials, the Afghan population in Italy held a protest against the Taliban and Pakistan in Rome’s Piazza Dei Santi Apostoli, shouting anti-Pakistan slogans on Sunday. In the protest, the demonstrators were demanding […]
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East Turkestan’s Exiled Govt Hails French Resolution On Uyghurs; Calls For Olympic Boycott
The exiled government of East Turkestan has hailed France’s National Assembly and French citizens for recognising the Chinese Government’s atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic people in East Turkestan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) as ‘genocide’. East Turkestan’s government further urged for a full boycott of the Beijing Olympics 2022. According […]
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As China Eyes Colombia, the United States Is AWOL
Hit hard by the pandemic, Colombia hasn’t had the luxury of being choosy about its partners. With high budget deficits and a rising national debt, the country lost its hard-fought investment grade credit ratings in 2021. And while Colombia is expected to report GDP growth of more than 9 percent […]
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Why China Is Slow-Rolling Taliban Cooperation
China’s calculated behavior toward the Taliban is driven by a deep mistrust that has taken shape since Beijing’s initial contact with the group in the 1990s. Back then, while the Taliban’s first emirate was still in its infancy, Uyghur separatists had intensified their militancy in China, carrying out bombings in […]
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America’s Asia Strategy Has Reached a Dead End
To the extent Campbell’s remarks reflect Washington’s view of Asia, they are at once modestly reassuring and highly troubling. Reassuring because Campbell’s bland rhetorical restraint is a refreshing departure from the volatility and pugnaciousness of the Trump administration. Troubling, however, because the ideas powering U.S. President Joe Biden’s Asia policy […]
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Putin’s Calculus Over Ukraine
While Russia has for decades chafed against NATO’s eastward expansion, Putin appears to have identified a potential opening—when the West is beset by its own crises and divisions, and Russia’s financial resilience seems at an all-time high—to force a change in Europe’s post-Cold War security order. But it is not […]
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Mali’s Military Doubles Down as Junta Ousts Burkina Faso’s President
If you would like to receive Africa Brief in your inbox every Wednesday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: Burkina Faso ’s president is detained in a coup, Ghana moves to review licenses following an explosion in a gold mining town, and the Islamic State-West Africa Province […]
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Biden’s 2022 Foreign-Policy To-Do List
But since it’s the holidays, let’s start on an upbeat note and take one potential flash point off the table. Although the issue of Taiwan will continue to complicate Sino-American relations, I’ll go out on a limb and say we won’t see a serious crisis or military confrontation over Taiwan […]
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US Escalates Steps To Ban Imports Produced By Uyghur Forced Labour From China
The United States on Monday announced a ban on all imports from China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region (UAR) or Xinjiang province where goods are allegedly produced with forced labour under mass detention and torture. The prohibition was advanced as a part of the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act […]
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China Accuses US Media Of Smearing Beijing-Moscow Ties On Ukraine Issue
China on Monday slammed US-based media for trying to smear the relationship between Beijing and Russia after a reputed publication claimed in an article that China had asked Moscow “not to invade Ukraine” during the Winter Olympics. Speaking at a routine press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian refuted […]