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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicChina-Afghanistan

Topic: China-Afghanistan

India needn’t recognise Taliban but it shouldn’t let China keep Afghanistan away from it either

It would be in the best interest of New Delhi and Kabul to maintain a minimal staff presence in their embassies and allow bilateral trade.

Taliban’s central bank governor and Chinese ambassador meet to discuss banking and business ties

China does not have formal diplomatic ties with Afghanistan but has continued to maintain an embassy in Kabul since Taliban took over in 2021.

China is overcoming security fears to connect with Taliban. It will keep LAC dispute alive

Beijing’s plan to connect CPEC with Afghanistan will bring more Chinese security forces to the Khunjerab Pass in the Pamir Knot–shrinking India’s strategic space in South Asia.

3 fears emerged when Kabul fell. A year later, none of them have come true

Like the US and Soviet Union before it, China is discovering the grand plans of Great Powers don’t survive contact with the realities in Afghanistan.

On Camera

Beneath the ice — what a lost US base from the Cold War reveals about Greenland

A failed US plan to hide missiles under the ice now provides vital clues for understanding Greenland’s future and climate risks.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.