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Israeli forces kill Palestinian boy in occupied West Bank (Al Jazeera)

Israeli troops have shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during weekly protests against the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank,...

Ethiopia’s Tigray Defense Forces Advance Toward Addis Ababa (Michael Horton, The Jamestown Foundation)

Ethiopia’s Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) are carrying out yet another successful counter-offensive against the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and its allies. The current...

Iran’s Impending Military Intervention In Iraqi Kurdistan: Catalysts and Unintended Consequences (Jacob Lees Weiss, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Iranian Foreign Ministry warned on October 4 that its “strategic patience” with what it described as anti-Iranian terrorist groups operating in the Iraqi...

Inside Afghan Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani’s Reception Honoring Suicide Bombers (Abdul Sayed, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Taliban Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, hosted a large reception for the heirs and families of hundreds of Taliban suicide bombers in the five-star...

Chinese Government’s Push for Masculinity Targets Boy Bands, Online Influencers (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

In early September, China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) issued a new regulatory notice on “Further Strengthening Management of Cultural Programs and their...

Power of the Weak: Taiwan’s Strategy in Countering China’s Economic Coercion (Christina Lai, The Jamestown Foundation)

In September, China’s General Administration of Customs (海关总署通知, Haiguan zong shu tongzhi) imposed bans on Taiwan’s sugar apples and wax apples, claiming that harmful pests were...

Western Sanctions on Belarus’s Potash Industry Test Beijing-Minsk Partnership (Bartosz Kowalski, Michał Słowikowski, The Jamestown Foundation)

At the beginning of September, the Belarusian news outlet Nasha Niva revealed that due to Western sanctions on Belarusbank, China had not paid another tranche of...

How Confucius Institutes in the Arab World Shape Positive Perceptions of China (Roie Yellinek, The Jamestown Foundation)

Much has been written about Confucius Institutes (CI) in the West, but this tool of Chinese influence does not receive much attention for its...

China’s Vocational Education Workshops Seek to Strengthen Relations with Africa (Conor McCutcheon, Savannah Billman, Johnsen Romero, Merle Kartscher, The Jamestown Foundation)

Over the past two decades, China has continuously increased its presence in, and cooperation with, countries across the African continent. The magnitude of increase...

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