Russia’s grand geo-economic plans in this part of Eurasia are dependent on the resolution of these tensions, while China’s will continue being advanced regardless of whatever happens with them. Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert Khorev told TASS over the weekend that his country supports Pakistan and Afghanistan’s respective counter-terrorism efforts. He then added that it encourages both of them to […]

Data Cutoff: February 4, 2025 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, […]

The 2024 Bangladesh crisis has marked the re-defining of national identity in Bangladesh, a final break away from Mujibur’s legacy of the secular imagination of the Bangladeshi nation. Even as the Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, leads the nation following Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and flight, Bangladesh’s interim government has moved to lift the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party that had […]

Pakistan reported Thursday that one soldier and 12 insurgents were killed in intense predawn clashes in a volatile northwestern district bordering Afghanistan. A military statement said the deadly shootout in North Waziristan occurred after security forces conducted an “intelligence-based” raid against a “khawarij” hideout, a term officially used to describe militants affiliated with the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. Insurgent […]

According to a report published by Tolo News, Suhail Shaheen, the ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) in Doha, has praised Qatar’s “significant role” in expanding the Taliban’s relations with different countries. “The Islamic Emirate’s Embassy in Qatar is active, and the interim government of Afghanistan has been able to establish connections with various […]

OCCRP reported in 2023 on allegations that Shibli Rubayat ul Islam was involved in a scheme that defrauded a Hong Kong company out of $13 million. A court in Bangladesh denied bail on Thursday to the former head of the country’s capital markets regulator, who is accused of money laundering and receiving $361,000 in bribes. Police arrested Shibli Rubayat ul […]

Beijing Is Preparing to Take Advantage of Disruption In the months since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November, policymakers in Beijing have been looking to the next four years of U.S.-Chinese relations with trepidation. Beijing has been expecting the Trump administration to pursue tough policies toward China, potentially escalating the two countries’ trade war, tech war, and […]

Data Cutoff: January 28, 2025 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, […]

Pakistan said Thursday it had provided Taliban leaders in Afghanistan with “sufficient proof” to substantiate its claims that militants are using modern weapons left behind by the United States military for cross-border terrorism. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan stated at a weekly news conference in Islamabad that the presence of U.S. advanced weapons in the neighboring country “remains a […]

Jharkhand: Insurgency Interrupted On January 22, 2025, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), cadres, including one female, were killed in an encounter with Security Forces (SFs) during a joint search operation by the Bokaro District Police and the 209th Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)’s elite CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) unit in the Tejnarayanpur Police Station […]