Tag: Geopolitics • Security

China’s relationship with the Taliban has been motivated by its own security interests and economic considerations. However, its pragmatic nature could offer an alternative platform for the actors that have been sidelined by the ongoing US-led negotiations with the Taliban. In June 2019, the Taliban delegation headed by Abdul Ghani Baradar visited Beijing. According to… Continue reading China & the Taliban: Pragmatic Relationship

The Sino-Russian border is an example of an international border that has been under recurrent and intense stress since its establishment at the end of the 17th century. During this long period, power misbalances and political mistrust between the two states pervaded territorial disputes, ethnic conflicts, the border clashes of the 1960s, the arms race… Continue reading Sino-Russian cross-border distrust in the longue durée