It amazes me that the media keep acting like Afghanistan is just a US problem while ignoring China

[roxas11]

On the Sunday shows and on social media I keep seeing many reporters ask this question

What will America do if Afghanistan becomes a hot bed for terrorist again?

The reason this question is so silly to me is because they are acting as if we are still in the 90s and American is still the only super power in the world right now. I think at the very least they should acknowledge the fact that Afghanistan is in on China border not ours.


Imagine an alternate reality where Mexico suddenly became a hot bed for Islamist terrorist. I don't for one second believe that the media would be currently asking China what will they do to stop the terrorist that is on America's borders lol

The reality is if Afghanistan does become a terrorist state that it is not just our problem anymore and the so called mainstream media needs to stop pretending that at is

[Santander]

Nice word salad.

[Woody]

China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

[lfromnj]

Fun Fact !
Afghanistan only borders China because Russia and the UK didn't want to border each other during the Great Game.
That part of Afghanistan is fairly isolated and not very traversable anyway.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

it's nearly impossible to cross that border. IDK what you're on about here

[Coldstream]

It’s all over the news that Taliban leadership have been meeting with CCP leadership. The CCP don’t want the Taliban riling up the Uighurs. And the Taliban, like their Pakistani paymasters, don’t care about Muslims they don’t control.

[roxas11]

it's nearly impossible to cross that border. IDK what you're on about here

You claim its impossible to cross that border yet here china is bending over backwards to appese the new taliban goverment



you clearly have more faith in that border than even China does

Also remember the US was as far away from the middle east as humanly possible yet that did not stop terrorists from coming over here to commit the worst terror attack in our history and make no mistake that so called nearly impossible to cross border will not stop them if they decide to go after China

[GlobeSoc]

The Taliban has neither the means nor motivation to assist Xinjiang fighters or otherwise attack China directly. I also imagine a honeymoon phase where the Taliban just accepts money from china and Pakistan and everything is relatively stable in the region is likely.

For a long-term geopolitical risk, I wouldn't be surprised if individual groups of Afghanistan Taliban gradually started assisting the Pakistani Taliban for Pashtun irredentist reasons, even if some leaders try to stop it. As for China, Pakistani destabilization could do heavy damage to their geopolitical position in south Asia, certainly vis a vis the 1B1R and containing India. Therefore, a conflict in Pashtun majority areas of Pakistan is far more likely to cause China to intervene against the Taliban in Afghanistan than a tiny land border.

[GP270watch]

 Even though we occupied Afghanistan it's been China getting a lot of the contracts for mineral rights and construction projects. China won't suffer because Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban, they'll just work with them and be unconcerned about how they govern locally as long as they allow China's objectives in the country.

[Ancestral Republican]

The King of Afghanistan actually attempted to help East Turkestan nationalists back in the day, but the PLA ultimately won the day there. I don't think there would be any political will to do something like that today.

I mean, look -

It's called the graveyard of Empires for a reason.

These are the countries that failed in Afghanistan.

British Empire - withdrew 1919
Soviet Union - withdrew 1989 (Soviet backed government collapsed in 1992)
United States - withdrew and gov't collapsed 2021

It stands to reason that the next succeeding power, China, would want to avoid those mistakes and instead try to maintain more cordial relations in the region. I don't see any reason why it would directly intervene barring a terrorist attack. Don't forget that China along with the US and UK actually backed the mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s.

[beaver2.0]

If the US government really knew what was up they would fabricate a war between China and the Taliban and then get the Chinese stuck there for decades which would give the US more flexibility in the Pacific.

[Pericles]

China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

[SnowLabrador]

China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

Is that actually happening, though, or is it just a right-wing plot to make Americans hate China?

[Florida Man for Crime]

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

Is that actually happening, though, or is it just a right-wing plot to make Americans hate China?

I don't know if it is necessary "millions" being imprisoned at any particular time, but:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/

[Nightcore Nationalist]

China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

Is that actually happening, though, or is it just a right-wing plot to make Americans hate China?

Oh, you have to be kidding.