{"id":6240,"date":"2022-03-26T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/end\/howtalibanchangechinastrategy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:06:16","slug":"howtalibanchangechinastrategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/howtalibanchangechinastrategy\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Taliban Takeover Changes China&#8217;s Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><em>China is now left navigating a complicated relationship with the Taliban and adapting to a new reality across Central Asia.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;\">By Reid Standish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>RFE <\/strong>&#8211; What does Beijing want in Afghanistan? Since the Taliban\u2019s August takeover of the country, Beijing\u2019s attention has increasingly turned toward Afghanistan and its neighbors in Central and South Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The situation is not just a foreign policy conundrum for China &#8212; which has a 76-kilometer border with Afghanistan &#8212; but it&#8217;s also linked to Beijing\u2019s domestic concerns, particularly fears of terrorism in its western Xinjiang province. Chinese policymakers hope that the region can act as a buffer against extremism spreading to Xinjiang &#8212; where the Chinese government has imprisoned more than 1 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minorities in internment camps.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> Motivated by these fears and more, China has set up a secret military outpost in Tajikistan along the Afghan border. where Beijing has increasingly turned its attention to counterterrorism.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> As things continue to change quickly in Afghanistan, China is now left navigating a complicated relationship with the Taliban and adapting to a new reality across Central Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Unpacking all this and more was the subject of a live Twitter Spaces discussion hosted by RFE\/RL on October 21 with Sirojiddin Tolibov, managing editor at Radio Free Europe\u2019s Tajik Service; Niva Yau, a Bishkek-based researcher from the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the OSCE academy; and Raffaello Pantucci, a senior associate fellow at London&#8217;s Royal United Services Institute. The talk was hosted by RFE\/RL China correspondent Reid Standish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><em>China is now left navigating a complicated relationship with the Taliban and adapting to a new reality across Central Asia.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan-news","category-centralasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}