The basic pillar of the unipolar world order led by the US has been shaken in a significant way. The neo-liberal ideological vision to shape the political-social restructuring and reshaping of power relations in "Great Middle East" has spectacularly failed. The shift of the US strategic center from...More

With the dramatic changes in the situation of Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis in the country has triggered wide attention and concern. The humanitarian crisis facing Afghanistan has deep roots. After the Afghan Taliban took power, the political and economic crises, as well as the epidemic and drought issues...More

Editor's Note: As the US has accelerated its pace to withdraw from Afghanistan despite its debacle and all the miseries caused to the Afghan people, the Afghan mission may be ending. But the war remains endless for American veterans. In the eyes of veterans, what has the US military...More

As Taliban take steps to stabilize the situation and pursue international recognition, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms are employing different investment strategies in the war-torn country, with the former exercising extreme caution in carrying out new projects and the latter eager to tap into a market...More

The most turbulent place in Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan government has been not in Kabul the capital city but at the Kabul international airport. For days, it has witnessed a déjà vu "Saigon moment," with the flood of Afghans desperate, even dying, to get out...More

The US is confronted with a historic defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. America's longest war, which began in 2001, is ending in complete humiliation. The Taliban has captured the countryside, every major city and now Kabul has effectively fallen. This is Saigon in 1975...More

August 15, the day that marked the 76th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, also witnessed the capital of Afghanistan being taken over by the Taliban at a stunning speed and with almost no bloodshed. US' practices in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and ended...More

Question: What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon and Vietnam share in common? Answer: Abandonment by an imperialist US. It is quite natural for a gambler to quit and cut their losses when bets and investments go sour. So it was with colonialism, and so it goes again with...More

The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...More

Following US President Joe Biden's decision to bring US forces in Afghanistan home, NATO also started withdrawing its own mission from the country. Twenty years after the war in Afghanistan began under former US president George W. Bush, the US-led NATO pullout is leaving a devastated, broken and...More

There are increasing concerns that Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is facing a resurgence of terrorism infiltrating through the Wakhan corridor, on the Afghanistan border, after the Taliban swept through northeastern Badakhshan province and is drawing closer to the border with China's Xinjiang. However, Chinese observers believe...More

With the pullout of US troops from Afghanistan, Pentagon officials are making last-minutes efforts to pursue basing options with Afghanistan's neighbors for future operations. Washington continues to focus on Pakistan for establishing a military base in the region, despite the fact that some American officials believe the negotiations...More

Against the backdrop of the US and NATO unilaterally pushing ahead troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, risks of turmoil are growing. To responsibly respond to this, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi presided over the 4th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers' Dialogue on Thursday. Wang raised five propositions...More

In April, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani wrote an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, and gave an interview to Der Spiegel to articulate his vision and framework for the peace process of Afghanistan. It is a critical time that we all come together and work for it, since...More

When the US says it will bring democracy to other countries, what those countries eventually get are explosions and civil wars - many Chinese people think and say so following the latest bombing in Afghanistan. The bomb attacks outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday evening...More