According to the US government’s annual threat assessment, released by its intelligence community this week, Daesh remains the most significant terrorism challenge facing America and its partners. The assessment is part of a broader report that addresses all threats to the US including, but not limited to, terrorism. Notably, this year’s report includes an alarming section about the role of […]

La Chine utilise la «diplomatie industrielle» et les contrôles technologiques pour créer de nouveaux réseaux de production mondiaux favorables à la Chine, centrés autour de la Chine, c’est-à-dire qu’elle ferait exactement ce que le colonialisme et l’impérialisme a fait depuis des siècles et qui se heurterait à plus retors que lui. Que faire, l’attaquer ? difficile, lui proposer le partage […]

From roughly 2013 to 2021, Chinese diplomats often adopted an aggressive approach that became known as “wolf warrior” diplomacy. The term was derived from the name of a popular nationalist Chinese action film, and in practice, wolf warrior diplomacy took the form of Chinese officials publicly using tough and often threatening language toward other nations. Over time, this approach resulted […]

Avec Donald Trump à la Maison-Blanche, les dynamiques du pouvoir mondial évoluent, et la Chine se positionne comme un partenaire de plus en plus attractif et fiable pour les nations du monde entier. Alors que les États-Unis, sous un deuxième mandat de Trump, privilégient le protectionnisme et l’unilatéralisme, semant le chaos parmi leurs alliés les plus proches, Pékin profite de […]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that 73,364 Afghans returned to their country in the third week of March, while 36,166 others left. The main reason for this increase from neighboring Pakistan and Iran is voluntary return, IOM said. According to the flow monitoring snapshot released by the IOM, compared to the previous week, the inflow movement in […]

Data Cutoff: March 25, 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, […]

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area has been rocked by multiple massive attacks recently. These attacks by Baloch insurgents, especially the attack on the Jaffar Express by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have raised a very valid question: Is the Pakistani Army really in control of Balochistan? This train hijacking left dozens dead and triggered a 30-hour military […]

No one knows how Kamran Hasan became a militant. The history-loving 23-year-old had returned home from Islamabad, where he worked as a chartered accountant, and had his hopes set on a degree in education. But then in June, he disappeared. A brief phone call to his father came days later. “He told me, ‘I am going to the mountains,’” says […]

The US National Intelligence Agency has excluded Afghanistan from its latest annual report on terrorist threats to national security, released Tuesday, despite documented evidence of Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda presence in the Taliban-controlled nation. This marks a stark shift from last year’s assessment, which referenced Afghanistan six times and the Taliban eight times. The 2025 US Intelligence Community’s global […]

In 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping argued that the world was undergoing “profound changes unseen in a century,” a concept that has since become central to Beijing’s geopolitical worldview. The phrase evoked parallels to the dramatic global shifts that followed World War I, including the collapse of European empires and the reordering of international politics. Today, Beijing perceives a similar […]