Across the border in Pakistan meanwhile, Islamabad has long aligned itself with China’s broader ambitions to expand its influence across South and Central Asia through Afghanistan long before ...

Trade and transit directly to China through the Wakhan ... Developments in two areas – Afghanistan’s illicit drug trade and the Sino-Afghan shared border – will give us early indications ...

As the U.S. leaves a vacuum in Afghanistan, people worldwide are watching China’s response. The two countries share a border and have on-and-off ties that predate the 2001 terrorist attacks in ...

In the wake of the Taliban takeover and U.S. exit, attention has focused on what role China is likely to play in Afghanistan. Beijing was among the first countries to say it "stands ready" to work ...