my amended take on the #Taleban's opening' of the #Wakhan road 'to' #China, with a special view on beijing's security policy approach to the #Pamir region, here:
thruttig.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/t...

my amended take on the #Taleban's opening' of the #Wakhan road 'to' #China, with a special view on beijing's security policy approach to the #Pamir region, here:
thruttig.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/t...
PaMIR is an open benchmark aggregating 19 public credit-default datasets (1.24M loans, firms, and card accounts across nine countries) for label-scarce, late-arriving prediction tasks. Every model is a single…
#PaMIR #CreditDefault #OpenBenchmark #MachineLearning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03259
interesting video on #Afghanistan's newly opened #Wakhan road, with footage of chinese border surveillance installations. the road – as #Pamir specialist markus hauser remarks on X – remains a dead end, though, without #China's participation in its construction and apparently in the opening ceremony
Winter trip from Osh in Kyrgyzstan to Murghab (#Tajikistan) on the #Pamir Highway
Dates: 21 February 2027 – 1 March 2027;
Group size: 7 or 10 people (2 or 3 jeeps);
Detailed program: https://thousandvoyages.net/tours/tajikistanwinter
#thousandvoyages
Winter trip from Osh in Kyrgyzstan to Murghab (#Tajikistan) on the #Pamir Highway
Dates: 21 February 2027 – 1 March 2027;
Group size: 7 or 10 people (2 or 3 jeeps);
Detailed program: https://thousandvoyages.net/tours/tajikistanwinter
#thousandvoyages