Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan/China – How will China seek to profit from the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan (Brookings)

Ryan Hass In recent days, many analysts have stepped forward to provide predictions on how America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will impact China’s regional and global...

Afghanistan – The Fragility of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan (HRW)

Heather Barr “But can we trust the Taliban on women’s rights?” has been a favorite question of journalists in recent years. The answer used to...

Afghanistan/ USA – The Legacy of the U.S. War in Afghanistan in Nine Graphics (CFR)

Lindsay Maizland Since the U.S. invasion in 2001, Washington and its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have spent hundreds of billions of dollars...

Afghanistan/USA – Why the Afghan army folded (AEI)

Kori Schake The United States has spent $83 billion training, equipping, and even paying Afghanistan’s security forces since 2001, a mammoth amount. As the events...

Afghanistan – Why Did the Afghan Army Evaporate? (RUSI)

Tim Willasey-Wilsey President Joe Biden’s claim that the Afghan army ‘did not have the resolve’ to fight for its own country would seem to be true...

Afghanistan – The Next Act in the Afghan Tragedy (RUSI)

Malcolm Chalmers This is a desperate time for the people of Afghanistan, as they await their fate under Taliban rule. While too much international aid has...

Afghanistan – Joint Statement on the Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan (US Department of State)

This statement has been co-signed by Albania, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, European Union, Honduras, Guatemala, North Macedonia,...

Afghanistan – Taliban must transform from an insurgency to govern (Chatham House)

Hameed Hakimi The scenes of tens of thousands of families displaced by the battles across the country who fled to the few remaining public parks...

Pakistan/Afghanistan/USA – The Real Failure Is Pakistan (Project-Syndicate)

BILL EMMOTT The blame for the return of the Taliban to power lies largely with Pakistan and America’s inability to bring the country onside. Even...

Afghanistan/China/USA – China’s Involvement in Afghanistan: A Conversation with Laurel Miller (CSIS)

Bonny Lin On this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Laurel Miller joins us to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and to assess China’s next...

Afghanistan/USA – The Taliban Takeover: Plan Now for the Next Crisis in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman The U.S. already faces a crisis over managing its evacuation from Afghanistan, over how to treat Afghans that aided the U.S. in...

Afghanistan – The Taliban now controls the Afghan economy. Here’s what that means (Atlantic Council)

Alex Zerden I joined the war in Afghanistan in its seventeenth year as the Treasury Department’s financial attaché at the US embassy in Kabul, landing...

Afghanistan/USA – Vietnam’s lessons for the Afghanistan failure: Don’t count out US leadership just yet (Atlantic Council)

Daniel Fried The August 15 images of helicopters lifting fleeing diplomats from the US embassy in Kabul—like those of a similar calamity in Saigon in...

Afghanistan/India – India’s midnight evacuation from Afghanistan, escorted by Taliban (Al Jazeera)

Outside the main iron gate of the Indian embassy in Kabul, a group of Taliban fighters waited, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade...

Afghanistan/USA – US freezes Afghan central bank’s assets of $9.5bn (Al Jazeera, Bloomberg)

Saleha Mohsin The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation...

Afghanistan/China/USA/Russia – China, US, Russia share consensus in Afghanistan, but Washington ‘should correct its mistake to exchange cooperation’ (Global Times)

Yang Sheng and Liu Xin The US has discussed the situation in Afghanistan with China, Russia, Pakistan and its European allies on Tuesday to seek cooperation following...