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2021-10-07 Afghanistan

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Evgeniya Kim

[Regnum] Beijing discussed with Kazakhstan the possibility of deploying its security structures in the country.

China is not confident that the Taliban will abide by the agreements reached. Vasily Kashin, an expert at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an expert on the Chinese military-industrial complex, spoke in an interview with IA REGNUM about the prospects of a Chinese military presence in Afghanistan and the countries of Turkestan.

IA REGNUM: The topic of Chinese private military companies (PMCs) in Turkestan has been discussed for many years. Could the Chinese military appear in the region in the near future in connection with the events in Afghanistan?

There were no Chinese PMCs in the countries of Central Asia and there are none.

What the residents of Tajikistan are frightened with are not PMCs. On the territory of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan, there are posts, and from time to time units of the army or the People's Armed Police of China enter the territory to block alternative routes to the XUAR of the PRC.

This is done within the framework of the 2016 agreement between the chiefs of the General Staffs of the PRC, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the current agreements, China periodically entered the territory of the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan and GBAO.

The PRC does not have PMCs, it has PSCs that are engaged in armed guards abroad. In China, there are companies that escort cargo on ships in the Horn of Africa. Other companies are guarding Chinese assets in troubled regions - in the Middle East and Africa. And there are joint security structures, some of whose employees are local residents.

Beijing did discuss, at least with Kazakhstan, the possibility of the presence of its security structures in the country to protect investment projects. But the idea of hiring purely Chinese structures did not materialize.

The PRC takes into account the growth of anti-Chinese sentiments, especially in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Their approach to the presence of guards at their facilities in other countries will be very careful and, most likely, will be implemented in the form of joint security organizations or the hiring of local security structures.

But this has nothing to do with the Taliban.

IA REGNUM: Now an information campaign is unfolding - the PRC is accused of cooperation with the Taliban(an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). What is the actual degree of Beijing's influence on the decisions of the new Afghan leadership?

The position of the PRC on the Taliban is similar to that of Russia. Beijing has its own channel to communicate with the new government in Afghanistan through Pakistani intelligence. But at the same time, China does not have much influence on the Taliban and there is no confidence that its members will comply with the agreements reached.

This is clearly seen in the way the PRC is strengthening its troops in the western part of the country, stepping up work within the SCO and through bilateral cooperation with Russia.

IA REGNUM How do you assess the fighting efficiency of the current PLA?

Chinese military power is now on the rise. They got involved in military competition with the United States. At the same time, it is important to note that Beijing's focus of military development and priorities related to rivalry with the United States is rather far from Central Asia.

The fastest growing branch of the Chinese armed forces is the naval forces. Until recently, the grouping of troops in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China was one of the most poorly equipped, with a huge amount of antique weapons.

But shortly before the collapse of the American government in Afghanistan, Beijing began active rearmament of troops in the XUAR. By the time the Taliban came to power, the level of equipment of troops in the western part of China was pulled up to the level of armament of the army in other regions of the country.

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#1 ...then they'll be hungry an hour later?

Posted by Raj 2021-10-07 00:55|| 2021-10-07 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I expect the current leader of Kazakhstan to die of mysterious illness soon - Kazakhstan is where Russian space program is located.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 02:31|| 2021-10-07 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Smells a little like the runup to the Spanish civil war, with German and Italian 'volunteers', and commies on the other side from Mexico and Russia. Maybe they were the PMC's of their time.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-10-07 09:47|| 2021-10-07 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would the Taliban be a threat to China? Unless it's because of how the PRC treats it's Muslim minority.

Posted by jpal 2021-10-07 12:35|| 2021-10-07 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Oxymoron--"Private" Mainland Chinese entities operating overseas

Posted by magpie 2021-10-07 20:04|| 2021-10-07 20:04|| Front Page Top

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