by Hussein Askary
The first freight shipment consisting of twelve containers arrived by train from China to the border town of Hairatan in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province on September 22, marking a milestone in breaking…
On March 24, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a surprise visit to Kabul, where he met with Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar. A statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry reports that…
by Hussein Askary (Board member of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden - BRIX)
According to well-documented statistics provided by American research institutions and universities the human, economic, and financial costs of all wars…
In this new podcast of the the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) 2021 series, we explore the situation in Afghanistan in the past and present, what went wrong and how the situation…
By Hussein Askary*
Board member of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX)
The hasty withdrawal of U.S., British and other North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of failed “war on…