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Pakistani woes likely to dominate Chinese vice president’s visit
Security and the viability of China’s massive investment is likely to
top Chinese Vice President
Wang Qishan’s agenda when he lands this
weekend in the Pakistani capital...
Does or doesn’t it work? Sustainability of Chinese re-education may be tested
The effectiveness of China’s effort to brainwash Uyghurs and Central
Asian Muslims in the troubled north-western province of Xinjiang may be tested.
With the recent release...
Squaring the circle: US challenges China on Xinjiang
A draft US resolution that would designate a Pakistani
militant as a global terrorist threatens to be China’s, and possibly Pakistan’s
showdown at the OK Corral....
Did Central Asia’s Jihadists Challenge Al Qaeda?
Uzbek and
Uyghur Muhajireen support HTS
First-time al Qaeda-linked Salafi-Jihadi groups from Central Asia, Caucasus and China's Xinjiang fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime in northern...
Chinese pressure tactics put countries between a rock and a hard place
Recent Chinese pressure on
Myanmar to approve a controversial dam project and the arrest in recent
days in Kazakhstan of a human rights activist suggest that...
Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm
A police raid on a
Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s north-western
province of Xinjiang is...
Walking a Chinese tightrope: Kazakh quiet diplomacy produces limited results
The Kazakh government, in defense of Kazakh and by
implication Central Asian behind-closed-doors diplomacy towards China in the
face of mounting domestic pressure, has offered a...
Turkish-Chinese spat puts Central Asian leaders on the spot
A Turkish-Chinese spat as a result of Turkish criticism of China’s crackdown on
Turkic Muslims in its strategic but troubled north-western province
of Xinjiang complicates efforts...
Kashmir puts Chinese counterterrorism on the defensive
Heightened tension in Kashmir and evidence of a Chinese military presence on the Tajik and Afghan side of their border with China’s troubled north-western...
Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence
In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang. Turkey’s foreign ministry...