Taliban signs $6.5bn mining contracts in Afghanistan
The extractive activities have gathered criticism that the Taliban is selling off Afghanistan’s natural resources to foreign entities.
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The extractive activities have gathered criticism that the Taliban is selling off Afghanistan’s natural resources to foreign entities.
From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years.
Since regaining power two years ago, the Taliban have largely discarded Afghanistan’s democratic institutions but have taken a somewhat accommodating, albeit contradictory, approach toward independent media. Instead of a banning independent media altogether, they have implemented regulatory restrictions and punitive measures to limit free speech and control the media environment. This policy approach seems to be part of an evolving communication strategy that helped enable the group’s rise to power. Despite all the bad news coming out of Afghanistan, resilient, creative journalists and med...
China was one of the first countries to do business with the new Taliban regime in Afghanistan, but securing long-term business goals in the country may prove difficult
Introduction At a trilateral meeting in Islamabad on May 9, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan and reaffirmed their support for multilateral infrastructure projects already underway, including the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA) power project and the Trans-Afghan Railways (People’s Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs [FMPRC], May …