China has seemingly chosen the path of quiet and unnoticed de facto recognition of the new Afghan regime through increasing political and economic contacts.
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China, Russia Pip US To The Taliban Hearth
At its most obvious level, Beijing has outwitted the US’ surreptitious, attempts in the recent months to return to Afghanistan.
Russia, China Take Holistic View Of The Pamirs And Hindu Kush
The Xi’an Declaration, issued after the First China-Central Asia Summit at Xi’an, takes a direct hit at the West’s interference in the region.
Foreign Devils On The Road To Afghanistan
The US and EU are to stir up the Central Asian pot within their efforts to practice dual containment against Russia and China.
Prince Harry’s Great Afghan Shooting Party
What to make of it? History is filled with the deeds of blood-thirsty princes bold in ambition and feeble of mind. Massacres make the man, though there is often little to merit the person behind it. The Duke of Sussex seemingly wishes to add his name to that list. In […]
The Importance Of Russia’s Investigation Into ISIS-K’s Kabul Embassy Attack
One can only speculate what this investigation will ultimately reveal upon its completion, but observers can be certain that it’ll shape Russian policy for years to come. ISIS-K’s terrorist attack against the Russian Embassy in Kabul was a major event that’ll shape Moscow’s regional strategy for years to come. Its […]
Doing Business With Taliban Govt
The best part of the UN Security Council discussion Thursday regarding the situation in Afghanistan was the candid remarks by the Russian and Chinese ambassadors on the accountability of the Taliban government in Kabul for the crisis gripping that country today, just an year after the vacation of the NATO […]
Kill Al-Zawahiri
It is unsettling to see a democratic government like the United States beating its chest over the high-tech murder of a retired jihadist, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. The 71-year-old al-Zawahiri succeeded the assassinated Osama bin Laden as chief of the anti-US underground group, al-Qaeda. The mild-mannered, Egyptian had been a local […]
Afghanistan Braces For New War
There is media buzz lately about an anti-Taliban insurgency struggling to be born in Afghanistan. A former Afghan army general, Sami Sadat, is returning home as the West’s favourite to don the mantle of leadership of a pan-Afghan “resistance” movement against repressive Taliban rule. There is a lot of infighting […]
Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington’s Regime Change Agenda
Nation states are habitually doomed to defeat their best interests. Conditions of mad instability are fostered. Arms sales take place, regimes get propped up or abandoned, and the people under them endure and suffer, awaiting the next criminal regime change. Nothing is more counter-intuitive than the effort to isolate, cripple […]
Russia Won’t Let The World Forget What The US Did To Afghanistan
Far from being ‘isolated’ and ‘rogue’, Russia is at the center of international efforts to respond to this crisis and is quickly becoming the world’s conscience on Afghanistan. The Russian Permanent Mission to the UN published a press release that condemned the US for seeking to shift responsibility for the […]
Reflections On Events In Afghanistan
40. The West co-opts the Taliban The three-day conclave in Oslo on January 23-25 for interaction for a core group of Western diplomats with Taliban officials marks a new phase in the political situation in Afghanistan. The West was represented by the US, UK, Germany, France and Italy as well […]
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