China emerging as a strategic winner in U.S. rout in Afghanistan
District of Columbia | August 18, 2021
China will gain strategically from the removal of troops from Afghanistan after the stunning collapse of the U.S.-backed government and military there, American analysts say.
But that success will be balanced against the ruling Communist Party‘s fear of contending with a radical Islamic state on its border in Central Asia and the potential flow of terrorists into China‘s Xinjiang province…. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)