South China Morning Post: Beijing may consider sending troops to Afghanistan.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday (14) the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and put the spotlight on the Chinese Communist Party. Friday’s report in Ma’s Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted Sun Qi (pronounced: Sun Qi), an international relations specialist at the Institute of International Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that Beijing may consider sending troops to Afghanistan.
The report said that the withdrawal of U.S. troops may affect the stability of Afghanistan, as well as the policy in Xinjiang. Sun was quoted as saying that the Chinese Communist Party would not send troops to Afghanistan, but could send “peacekeeping troops” to the region to follow humanitarian aid workers in accordance with the U.N. charter.
Afghanistan shares a border with China in Xinjiang. Afghan troops were trained in China in 2018, and China has helped set up mountain brigades in Afghanistan. Sun said Afghanistan’s own armed forces are not enough to ensure security in Afghanistan, after making cross-border crime, drug trafficking and arms smuggling more serious. He also said that the U.S. military forces originally stationed in Central Asia will be reorganized to the Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean to restrain the Chinese Communist Party.
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