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Frontier defense troops of China and Tajikistan conduct a joint patrol along the Chinese-Tajik border on September 17, 2017. But that image is one that Beijing finds increasingly complicated.
Indeed, in what may have been in part a tacit signal to the Chinese, forces with the armies of Russia and Tajikistan held joint military drills in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast in July.
A Chinese climate-observation station in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan has led to speculation it could be used for surveillance and security. Analysts agree it has such potential ...
Back in 2016, Reuters reported that Tajikistan had signed an agreement with China that would provide for the construction of 11 “outposts of different sizes and a training center for border ...
Tajikistan has formally accepted a $125 million grant from China to upgrade a key highway. ... which lies at a height of more than 4,300 meters above sea level on the border between Tajikistan’s ...
China will finance the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan's police near the Tajik-Afghan border, the Central Asian nation's parliament said on Thursday.
One Chinese citizen was killed and four others injured in an attack near the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Beijing’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “On November 18 Beijing time ...
Tajikistan was among the first four projects announced by the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The AIIB was proposed by Beijing in 2013 and opened for business in January 2016.
Tajikistan's president on Monday ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster the border with Afghanistan after more than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the ...
An earthquake of about 6.8 magnitude shook eastern Tajikistan at 5:37 a.m. (0037 GMT) on Thursday, Tajik authorities said, which was felt in China and other neighbouring countries. The earthquake ...
China plans to finance and build several outposts and other facilities to beef up Tajikistan's defense capabilities along its border with Afghanistan, the Tajik government said on Monday.