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2021-04-18 Afghanistan
China may send peacekeeping force to Afghanistan after US troops leave, observers say
[South China Morning Post] Beijing may consider
...goodness, that’s decisive...
sending a peacekeeping force to Afghanistan if the security situation in the South Asian country poses a threat to the neighbouring Chinese province of Xinjiang after American troops pull out, analysts said.

US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he would withdraw all remaining US troops — about 2,500 — from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack in New York.

The withdrawal may pose a threat to Afghanistan’s security and stability, which could spill over into Xinjiang and disrupt China’s counterterrorism efforts.

In 2018, China trained Afghan troops and helped set up a mountain brigade. The training took place in China and the aim of the brigade was to counter possible attacks by al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
Not the Taliban?
"The security forces of the Afghan government are not capable of ensuring Afghan security," said Sun Qi, an international relations specialist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

"The situation in Afghanistan might go further into chaos in the future. Cross-border crime, drug trafficking and smuggling of firearms may proliferate," he said.
Very probably, yes.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-18 05:02|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 Good. Either they'll show the world how this shit is done, or end up sending a third of their little emperors to their deaths. Good either way.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-18 05:17||   2021-04-18 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 said Sun Qi

"Sun"? As in Yat-Sen? Seems a rather risky name for a loyal CCP cadre. Spy?.
Posted by Cranter Guelph2763 2021-04-18 07:03||   2021-04-18 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Nah, the name is honored by the CCP and the parties on Taiwan. They draw their 'legitimacy' originating from the 'founder' of modern China. Its sort of like democrats who keep trying to appropriate Lincoln as one of theirs.
Posted by Procopius2K 2021-04-18 07:28||   2021-04-18 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Let them waste their blood and treasure there. 20 years and we can't win.
Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-04-18 07:33||   2021-04-18 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Depends on who "we" is. I believe the troops could do just fine, but there's no political will in Washington to "win," whatever that might look like.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-18 07:51||   2021-04-18 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Probably no restrictive ROE's either.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-04-18 08:18||   2021-04-18 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chinese troops won't worry about "hearts and minds" or collateral damage. The latter they might consider a feature, not a bug.
Posted by Woozle Theamble4130 2021-04-18 09:36||   2021-04-18 09:36|| Front Page Top

#8 It's not like the usual Muslim world 'outrage' over the final solution for the Uyghurs will stop another cleansing. What's that? No discernible whining about the Central Asians? Seems only the Trump administration was concerned and no one else.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-18 10:02||   2021-04-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 If the Chicoms are concerned about drug trafficking it's because they want in on it.
Posted by Kofi Oppressor of the Leprechauns5669 2021-04-18 10:42||   2021-04-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Seeking to establish a Uyghur homeland ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-18 10:44||   2021-04-18 10:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Wuhan labs just got a new work order?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-18 10:57||   2021-04-18 10:57|| Front Page Top

#12 If they follow the historical model for depressing violence from that area , you'll see village here and a village there disappear overnight . No women or children will be spared .
Posted by Phinetch Wherese4624 2021-04-18 12:30||   2021-04-18 12:30|| Front Page Top

#13 And the US can't interfere this time because... it's not the Rooshians!
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-18 13:10||   2021-04-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#14 They are just there for the rare earth.
Posted by Whinetch Floluling5328 2021-04-18 15:15||   2021-04-18 15:15|| Front Page Top

#15 And the US can't interfere this time because... it's not the Rooshians China owns the Biden's!

FIFY
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-04-18 16:59||   2021-04-18 16:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Afghanistan. The graveyard of empires.
Posted by Torquemada 2021-04-18 17:03||   2021-04-18 17:03|| Front Page Top

#17 ^Genghis Khan didn't have any trouble.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-18 17:14||   2021-04-18 17:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Genghis Khan didn't have ROE
Posted by Frank G 2021-04-18 17:47||   2021-04-18 17:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Genghis Khan didn't have ROE

Did so - kill everything that doesn't surrender unconditionally. I'm sure PLA's ROE is quite different.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-18 17:57||   2021-04-18 17:57|| Front Page Top

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