The Myth of Sino-Russia ‘Takeover’ of Afghanistan
Rivals for regional dominance step gingerly
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A year after the fundamentalist Taliban stormed into Kabul, ending 20 years of war, the regime remains an unrecognized government, most certainly not something that they expected. In the West as well, the anticipation was that Russia and China – which supposedly saw a vacuum being created after the US withdrawal – would quickly ste…
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