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Is SCO Expansion a Good Thing?

by | Jul 24, 2016 | Monitor

Catching up on some old posting again, combination of being busy and some technical difficulties causing issues with updating. This is a piece for The Diplomat in the wake of the SCO Summit in Tashkent which passed with very little attention. Is SCO Expansion a Good...

Can China Assert Itself in Afghanistan?

by | Sep 1, 2015 | Monitor

A new piece with a Chinese friend looking again at China-Afghanistan relations and trying to establish how Beijing might play a more positive role in the country. Something that looks increasingly complicated nowadays with the current chaos, but I think still remains...

China and India: Time to cooperate on Afghanistan

by | Oct 26, 2013 | Monitor

A pair of articles in the English and Chinese language press focused on a subject I am doing a growing amount of work on China and India in Afghanistan post-2014. It is part of a bigger stream of work focused on China in Central Asia that I am doing with Alex, but has...

Tightening the Silk Road Belt

by | Sep 19, 2013 | Monitor

Another piece for The Diplomat, this time with Alex (my co-editor at China in Central Asia), focusing on Xinjiang and how this fits into China’s Central Asian strategy. Very much the theme of our bigger project that we are working on at the moment. So much more...