The Future of Chinese Investment in Afghanistan
January 13th, 2023
Via STRATFOR World View (subscription required), analysis of the future of Chinese investment in Afghanistan: China will explore low-risk economic opportunities in Afghanistan in the short-to-medium term, providing modest economic and humanitarian relief for the Taliban-led government. On Jan. 5, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan announced the signing of an oil extraction deal with a Chinese company […]
Read more »Taliban Settle Oil Deal With Chinese Company
January 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on a deal between the Taliban and a Chinese petroleum company which is actually a repeat of a previous contract signed by the former Republic government with CNPC in 2011: On January 5, the Taliban held a televised ceremony heralding the signing of the group’s first international agreement since taking over […]
Read more »Afghanistan’s Uncertain Economic Future
January 5th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – more than a year after the Taliban takeover – prospects for economic development in Afghanistan remain bleak: Afghanistan continues to feel the aftershocks of the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces in August 2021, particularly the ensuing significant economic contraction. Although the economy is no longer […]
Read more »Let Afghanistan Rebuild
December 13th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary suggesting that donors must work with the Taliban on economic recovery: One year ago, in the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Western policy was pushing Afghanistan to the brink of collapse. Humanitarian groups warned that U.S. sanctions and other restrictions were choking the Afghan economy and could […]
Read more »China’s Interests in Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal
October 15th, 2022
Via The Jamestown Foundation, a look at China’s interests in Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal: In late June, a severe earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced it would provide 50 million RMB ($7.2 million) in emergency aid, including tents, blankets, cots […]
Read more »Pipe Dreams (cont’d): TAPI
October 10th, 2022
Via Times of Central Asia, the latest on a decades-long vision that seems unlikely to truly advance any time soon: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban-led Afghan government) on a visit to Turkmenistan reached agreements on important issues related to the TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) […]
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