
Will China become Afghanistan's new sponsor?
Chinese Whispers
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Do You Think the Americans Have Pulled a Strategic Blinder by Creating a Problem for China on Its Border?
There are five countries in central asia, and lots of different people. There's a big gap between what the elites think and how ordinary people think. The presence of islamic militancy in that area is only going to createl make that relationship more problematic. I'm sure there is sympathy for what's happening with the weeges e sant jon. But then you have ordinary people, at least when i was hanging around in kurgestan and casekstan, a great sense of sort of yellow peril,. Even though these people are so echnicallyyou know, they're quite close. And it's not just curgis, its also cassakans
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