The Chinese foreign minister has met with the Afghan Taliban's political chief in Tianjin. What's the importance of the meeting for the future of Afghanistan?

DPRK and ROK agree to reopen a cross-border communication channel shut down a year ago. Can the decision improve relations between Pyongyang and Seoul?

China's new Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang has arrived in Washington to assume office. Before this appointment, Qin was in charge of overseeing China's foreign affairs with Europe. How will that experience help him to navigate China-U.S. relations? 

For this edition of Dialogue Weekend show, we have Yang Xiyu, senior fellow of the China Institute of International Studies; Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of Politics at East China Normal University; Lailuma Nasiri, Co-Founder and Vice President of Afghanistan Justice; Shane Hahm, Correspondent from Seoul.