China Cautiously Eyes New Regional Leadership Role As Afghanistan Fighting Intensifies
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Afghan security forces broke up an alleged Chinese espionage ring in December that was operating in Kabul and trying to infiltrate terrorist networks in the country.
The Afghan government said little about the issue besides acknowledging the arrests. Beijing publicly denied knowledge of the group’s activities.
But Afghan officials later told journalists the spy cell had been operating for up to seven years in the country and had been seeking the help of the Haqqani network a Pakistan-backed Islamist group linked to the Taliban to hunt down Uyghur groups operating in Afghanistan.
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‘Himalayan Quad’: is China about to start its own security bloc with Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan? China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts a video conference with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal in July 2020. Photo: Xinhua
One of the most notable measures taken by Washington and its allies in response to China s rise and the threat it poses to the liberal international order has been the development of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad .
China sees the grouping, which brings together Japan, India, Australia and the US, as part of the latter s policy of encirclement - leading analysts to ask if Beijing might eventually seek to set up a rival bloc, focused not only on security, but other global challenges such as counterterrorism and climate change.