Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 28, 2014. POOL New/REUTERS
Reuters: Afghan troops to train in China, ambassador says
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will train Afghan troops on Chinese soil, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Beijing said, describing the military cooperation as an effort to fight al Qaeda and Islamic State militants bent on attacking China from its western neighbor.
Afghanistan has also requested that China provide Afghan security forces with combat helicopters, Ambassador Janan Mosazai told Reuters in an interview.
Beijing last month dismissed reports that Chinese troops would be stationed in its war-torn neighbor, after it agreed to help Afghanistan set up a “mountain brigade” in the rugged Wakhan Corridor linking the two countries.
“But yes, there will be some training required, obviously, and that will take place in China,” Mosazai said in the interview on Tuesday.
The Chinese military had promised to supply two fixed-wing transport aircraft for medical evacuation purposes, he added, and crews for the planes were already training in China.
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Update: Is Beijing deploying PLA troops in Afghanistan? (Joseph Hope, Asia Times)
WNU editor: Here is an easy prediction. This military alliance between Afghanistan and China will only grow with time.
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So whether the American political establishment makes a decision or not, whether it dithers, this might become a Chinese war.
One lesson the American political establishment is that they do not have forever to make a decision.
It behooves them to make a good decision. That would entail learning military science and economics.
Some American politicians have a strategy, a tactic. It is do not solve a problem, but use it as red meat, as a bloody flag. There are several problems that American politicians are just happy they are seemingly intractable. Thus they go back to the well every election with 'the issue' and stir up the base.
China will always try to expel a major power from its periphery from any small country. Obviously, it cannot expel India or Russia. This neatly explains their involvement in Korea and Vietnam. They might not like these people, but they will work to keep a foreign power away.
Afghanistan is on China's periphery. It will work to keep the US and India out of it.
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