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Russian-Chinese Strategic Cooperation to Ensure Security in Afghanistan Following U.S. Withdrawal

Report No. 80/2022 Report No. 80/2022 The report by RIAC and 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 August 2021. This report highlights Moscow and Beijing’s interests in supporting ...

26.12.2022

Changes in Afghanistan: Regional and International Implications

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 ...

08.12.2021

Kabul: Old Problems are New Challenges

... take a different approach, which means foreign actors could only advocate a certain “liberalization” of these institutions, accounting for the current trends in international development. Andrey Kazantsev: Prospects and Scenarios for Afghanistan: Russian and Chinese Interests On the other hand, the Taliban’s activities tend to ignore the economic aspects, which are still of fundamental significance as they are instrumental to resolve the pressing problems that the Afghani face, while having an impact on the country’s domestic stability and the ...

26.11.2021

Afghanistan and Regional Security Problems

... pushing the states of the region to cooperate not only in the military sphere, but also in the economy and politics. The strength and viability of the new Afghan regime is a mystery to all external players and, probably, to the Afghans themselves. The Taliban itself (banned in Russia) is, according to known data, a network structure with decentralised leadership and the absence of clear chains of command. This is what allowed them to survive and win in conditions where the enemy had total military and information superiority....

20.09.2021

The Fall of Kabul and the Balance of Power in Greater Eurasia

... political stabilisation in this country has the most solid foundation. First, it is a military victory for a relatively consolidated political 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 implementation of major economic projects and refusal to support those religious groups that pose a threat to the security on ...

02.09.2021

The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021

... Moscow’s withdrawal would lead to a substantial Chinese involvement xii . However, Beijing did not wish to intervene militarily, nor did Pakistan or Iran, which resulted in a political vacuum in Afghanistan—hence the rise of radicals, notably the Taliban. Andrey Kortunov: Afghanistan Will Test SCO's Capacity The post-Soviet Russia no longer shares a border with Afghanistan, which makes military intervention unlikely, despite the relationship between Afghan religious extremists and those in the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Dagestan), while the Central Asian countries are ...

17.08.2021

Waiting for the Intra-Afghan Dialogue to Begin

... country, with unconditional respect for its sovereignty and 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 the 3-plus format to include Iran and Pakistan, but Washington’s desire to isolate Tehran from the Afghan problem as much as possible meant that the proposal did not have its intended effect. At ...

23.06.2020

Escape from Responsibility: the U.S. Is Looking for a Way Out of Afghanistan

... it wasn’t repeated. According to the special representative of Russian President for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov, the "Moscow format" is about national reconciliation within Afghanistan, while the negotiations between the Americans and the Taliban are about the further presence or withdrawal of foreign troops. Thus, both the U.S., represented by Zalmay Khalilzad and Russia by Zamir Kabulov as well as the results of the Moscow talks in a gentleman's way declared the usefulness of both initiatives. However, the matter of whether Afghanistan will become a point of joint and coordinated actions of the United States and ...

15.04.2019

Pakistan Will Appreciate Russia Playing a More Active Role in the Region

... Counter-Terrorism Authority of Pakistan RIAC Expert Tatyana Kanunnikova talks with Kh Khalid Farooq, expert in terrorism and former Head of National Counter-Terrorism Authority of Pakistan ( NACTA ), about improving the situation in Afghanistan, negotiations with Taliban, and the areas for Russia and Pakistan can cooperate in. On Feb 5–6, the Taliban political envoys met with Afghan political leaders in Moscow to discuss the peace process. The event was organized by the Afghan diaspora but representatives from Pakistan took part in this ...

14.02.2019

The Inter-Afghan Talks: Transforming the Taliban

... attempts to achieve a truce, but to no avail. In the meantime, Pakistan got a new prime minister, whom his enemies have dubbed Imran “Taliban” Khan. On Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan announced a temporary ceasefire with the radical Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation) on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bairam) Festival. Moreover, his office proposed a three-month long truce, which, given the real state of affairs on the ground, looked quite ambitious. Ruslan Mamedov: Revival of the Caliphate: ...

24.08.2018
 

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