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China Has a BIG Plan for Post-U.S. Afghanistan and It’s Worth Billions Syed Fazl-e-Haider © Provided by The Daily Beast Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty KARACHI, PAKISTAN As the U.S. exits Afghanistan, Beijing is preparing to swoop into the war-torn country and fill the vacuum left by the departed U.S. and NATO troops. China is poised to make an exclusive entry into post-U.S. Afghanistan with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source close to government officials in Afghanistan told The Daily Beast that Kabul authorities are growing more intensively engaged with China on an extension of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) the flagship project of BRI, which involves the construction of highways, railways and energy pipelines between Pakistan and China to Afghanistan.

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