Aye aye... USA wont completely step out of a vast base they carved out in Afghanistan. NEVER!
Lets see how the china dance . Its good for Trump vis a vis the election promise. This is good optics and the USA is already awed.
A bait for china..yes. This must be the reason why china is all friendly with India now ,as in Afghan opening up venues for the joint project, joint training of Afghan diplomats and soldiers etc. Deep inside china knows the inroads India has made in Afghan..and china want to walk that roads.
Recently even pakis supported India's role in Afghan which is a total departure from the pakistan policy on India in Afghanistan.
Well! Now its clear, china wants India in Afghan and pak has no option but to voice what china prompted them to say. I was thinking it was the winds from the Opium farms that affected the pakis.
I love the fact that India is using the chinese effectively to corner pakistan bigtime in Realpolitik, with the token gestures thrown at china like training and co- ops etc.
Well!! the chinese FM is in India today..Coincidence...well!! I dont think so.
if china is using the economic strength in Afghan, then we know where that loot is gonna end up! If economic strength won war..then USA would have had won em all.
pakis will ensure that East Turkestan becomes active with militancy against chinese to "negotiate" with china on the loans and debts. USA can have covert war with china in Afghan and on its vulnerable peripheries.
china cant have global legitimacy without the technology at par or above the global powers who was fighting the sand people for decades together. This is where the chinese mil. tech will be tested to the core, if they ever try to step in. IMO, chinese will use the pak army as usual minus the money or aid or compensation
We all know how incapable the chinese soldiers are in real war ( The news coming out of peace keeping missions and all)