Asia

Robert Daly

Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

Regardless of daily headlines, the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States bases its work in the interests of both nations and in their shared and independent histories.

Michael Kugelman

Director, South Asia Institute

Afghanistan today is a messy, mixed picture. After almost four decades of war, there is no more active conflict. But the country is fully controlled by a Taliban regime just as brutal as it was in the 1990s, and it is suffering through searing levels of humanitarian and economic stress. Relative peace may have arrived, but at great cost.