Russia and China Differ in Afghanistan Ambitions: Experts

Russia and China Differ in Afghanistan Ambitions: Experts
A Taliban fighter stands guard along a street near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 23, 2021. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
Andrew Thornebrooke
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Policy factions in Russia are split on whether the nation should commit to trying to match the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) economic ambitions in Afghanistan or merely recommit to working in the central Asia security space, according to experts familiar with the matter.
Maxim Suchkov, a senior fellow at the Laboratory for International Trends Analysis at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, said that there was a divide over whether the risks of state building in the Middle East were worth the potential lucre of tapping into Afghanistan’s $1 trillion worth of rare earth metals.
Andrew Thornebrooke
Andrew Thornebrooke
National Security Correspondent
Andrew Thornebrooke is a national security correspondent for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master's in military history from Norwich University.
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