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| China: The Post-Afghanistan U.S. Adversary in South Asia |
| 2019-06-05 |
| [Committee on on the present danger: China} By Col. Lawrence Sellin, US Army (Ret.), Ph.D. Executive Summary The United States must now accept the fact that we failed to meet our objectives in Afghanistan and, upon withdrawal, the best outcome we can expect would be a new U.S. regional strategy that prevents our adversaries from benefitting from that failure. Pakistan, not Afghanistan, is the epicenter of Islamic extremism and has always been an ally of China. The China-Pakistan Axis sees U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as an essential first step towards regional domination of South Asia, which would be a long-term strategic threat to the United States. Without an American military presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. must take measures to strategically disrupt Chinese-Pakistani regional ambitions through traditional containment policies and exploiting the nation-state, ethnic and religious faults lines within the region. |
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