Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics (Record no. 49640)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789354895210
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.510581 KRI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krishnan, Ananth
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperCollins India
Place of publication, distribution, etc Gurugram, Haryana
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 276
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has left a lasting impact on both Afghanistan's future and on Asian geopolitics. It has also brought China into focus. This book traces the emergence of China as a key player in Afghanistan and the evolution of China's Afghan policy especially with respect to its relations with the Taliban. Beijing's dominant role in Afghanistan's future is a potentially game-changing development in Asian geopolitics, even if questions remain about the former's appetite to step in to fill the void and the limits of its ambitions. In The Comrades and the Mullahs, Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny examine what Beijing's interests are and the drivers of its foreign policy, and, more specifically, how its new Silk Road project the Belt and Road Initiative is shaping China Afghan relations. They look at how Afghanistan has emerged as a key point on the corridor heading west from Xinjiang, and discuss the Xinjiang factor, drawing on their travels to China's western frontiers, as well as the internal dynamics that are pushing Beijing's westward march. Another factor is the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the terror groups that are leading to an increasingly securitized approach to China's western regions and beyond, including possible Chinese plans to deploy special forces along the China Afghan border areas in the Wakhan corridor and Badakhshan region. China's Afghan engagement has also deepened its all-weather alliance with Pakistan with Beijing increasingly leaning on Islamabad, particularly in its outreach to the Taliban and other elements in Afghanistan that have long been supported by the Pakistani state and is a perennial source of tension between Islamabad and Kabul. The authors show how this increasing closeness is alarming for India, and might have far-reaching consequences, especially in Kashmir."
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geopolitics-Asia
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element China-Foreign Relations-Afghanistan
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghanistan-Foreign Relations-China.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Johny, Stanly
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Koha item type Book
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