{"id":37211,"date":"2018-09-01T07:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37211"},"modified":"2018-09-01T07:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:11:19","slug":"china-moves-into-afghanistan-as-part-of-its-global-expansion-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37211","title":{"rendered":"China Moves Into Afghanistan As Part Of Its Global Expansion Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China Moves Into Afghanistan As Part Of Its Global Expansion Mission<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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For many, it was a stunning development<\/strong>. China will\u00a0build<\/a>\u00a0a brigade-size military training facility in the strategic Wakhan Corridor, the land bridge between Tajikistan and Pakistan, which is located in Afghanistan\u2019s northeast Badakhshan province and borders China.<\/p>\n

Although Beijing denied the claim that hundreds of Chinese soldiers will be deployed to Afghanistan<\/strong>, a source close to the Chinese military stated,\u00a0\u201cConstruction of the base has started, and China will send at least one battalion of troops, along with weapons and equipment, to be stationed there and provide training to their Afghan counterparts.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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For those who have been closely following growing Chinese influence in Afghanistan, the above report comes as no surprise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A year earlier on August 14, 2017, Spogmai radio quoted the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense (translation):\u00a0\u201cA brigade base will be built to maintain the security of Badakhshan, which will be funded by China.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesman stated that China has steadily increased its military cooperation with Afghanistan and had, at that point, already provided $73 million in military aid.<\/p>\n

Beyond the enormous geopolitical implications of a Chinese military base inside Afghanistan, the Badakhshan installation is the final security link between Tajikistan, vital to China\u2019s commercial interests in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, China\u2019s \u201call-weather\u201d ally in South Asia.<\/p>\n

It was largely unreported that China\u00a0financed border outposts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0deployed troops<\/a>\u00a0to Tajikistan\u2019s eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, which borders Afghanistan\u2019s Badakhshan province and is part of the Wakhan Corridor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consolidating a Chinese presence in Badakhshan province, the Afghan Ministry of Information and Technology\u00a0has discussed<\/a>\u00a0signing a contract with China Telecom for a fiber optic network connecting China to the Wakhan Corridor. No doubt, the intention is to couple that system to the\u00a0larger network<\/a>\u00a0linking China with Pakistan, the Middle East and\u00a0Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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China Moves Into Afghanistan As Part Of Its Global Expansion Mission For many, it was a stunning development. China will\u00a0build\u00a0a brigade-size military training facility in the strategic Wakhan Corridor, the land bridge between Tajikistan and Pakistan, which is located in Afghanistan\u2019s northeast Badakhshan province and borders China. Although Beijing denied the claim that hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,2045,130,21464,21465,4318],"class_list":["post-37211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-colonel-lawrence-selling","tag-the-daily-caller","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37212,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions\/37212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}