This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Arms Race.” ...

China’s claims reach deep into the South China Sea. On maps of the area, Beijing has demarcated what’s known as the “ nine-dash line ” (pictured in green in the below map), a boundary that brushes up ...

Central Asian nations are increasingly engaging with Afghanistan through economic cooperation, trade, and infrastructure ...

Russia and China would be the first nuclear powers to sign a treaty barring use of the weapons in Southeast Asia.

Hamdullah Fitrat, Deputy Spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, wrote on X that Maulvi Hanafi participated in and delivered a speech at the 9th China-South Asia Expo (CSA), held in ...

Top officials said the Trump administration will use executive action and work with state officials to ban sales of farmland ...

Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since June 1, following Tehran's order for undocumented migrants to leave by ...

The Taliban may be the unexpected beneficiaries of India and Pakistan’s recent conflict, as both countries court Afghanistan’s hardline government, which is yet to be formally recognised by ...

China has meanwhile sought to portray the U.S. to the rest of the world – and the Global South in particular – as a disruptor ...

China on Thursday brought Bangladesh and Pakistan together for an inaugural trilateral dialogue in Kunming, barely a month after hosting a similar meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan. The closed ...

At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama’s troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time.

A Newsweek map, based on the AidData development finance database maintained by the College of William and Mary in Virginia, shows 147 countries and regions that China pledged funding to up until ...