... Peking University’s Institute for International and Strategic Studies on Russian-Chinese cooperation in ensuring security in Afghanistan provides a general assessment of the security situation in the country following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in ... ... means of ensuring and protecting it. The authors analyze in detail the opportunities and challenges that arise for Russia and China when cooperating in this region, as well as the impact of the U.S. and other external factors on Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan is an issue on which China, Russia and the US can find common language
The Taliban’s return to power has fundamentally changed the political environment of Afghanistan, both internally and externally. The internal leading forces inside Afghanistan have turned to be the Taliban instead of the political forces represented by ...
The value of any potential deal with the Taliban is apparently not entirely clear to Russia, China or any of the Central Asian countries
The value of any potential deal with the Taliban is apparently not entirely clear to Russia, China or any of the Central Asian countries. As a rule, they combine active diplomacy towards Afghanistan with active military preparations, writes Valdai Club expert Vasily Kashin.
The defeat and abrupt withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, coupled with the instant collapse of the regime it had built in that country, has raised the ...
... relative isolation of India, as the country that most closely connects its future with the West.
We do not know if peace in Afghanistan becomes a reality. However, right now, for the first time in the past 40 years, internal political stabilisation in ... ... movement with a unified leadership and control system. Second, the agreement of the leading regional powers like Russia and China that the Taliban movement should be given a chance to show prudent behaviour inside and outside. For China, this is cooperation in the ...
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mentioning the territory. This article attempts to synthesize the CIA’s reasoning from the declassified documents from 1979 to the most recent ones, in order to understand this region of the world at a time when American troops are withdrawing and China is strengthening its military presence in the Wakhan corridor and beginning
negotiations
with the Taliban.
The Soviet presence in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and its consequences for regional powers and U.S. diplomacy
Far from confining itself to the Sino-Afghan relations, the CIA integrates its reasoning by taking into account all the neighboring countries, notably India, Pakistan ...
... proximity to, Afghanistan, as well as about the European Union. All these countries have been keeping a close eye on events in Afghanistan over the years, and during this time, they have developed a number of common approaches to how they see the future ... ... territorial integrity. The consultations between the members of the tripartite group consisting of the United States, Russia and China set up to more or less coincide with the launch of U.S.–Taliban negotiations proved instrumental in moving the process forward. Russia then pushed for the mechanism to be expanded to ...
... armed conflict between India and Pakistan, the effectiveness of the SCO is questioned.
China remains committed to providing resources for the state reconstruction, as it was... ..., Beijing is not interested in creating of “safe haven” for terrorist groups in Afghanistan because of the Uighur issue.
For Russia, the problems of countering international... ... traditionally important.
Ruslan Mamedov:
The Inter-Afghan Talks: Transforming the Taliban
The abrupt withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan could destabilize...
... which is supposed to be actively used by NATO forces pulling out of Afghanistan.
In the near term, while NATO troops are leaving Afghanistan, Central Asian countries along with Russia and China will have to elaborate a strategy of resilience to political and ideological expansion of terrorism and religious extremism in order to maintain security in the region, taking into account potential increase of the Taliban and their allies’ role in these countries (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, “Hezb ut-tahrir” and so on).
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