From A Secret Base in Tajikistan, China’s War On Terror Adjusts To A New Reality

October 14, 2021

Near SHAYMAK, Tajikistan — In a remote stretch of land near the Wakhan Corridor not far from Tajikistan’s mountainous border with northeastern Afghanistan, China’s regional ambitions are adjusting to a new reality on the ground.

Next to an old Soviet outpost and believed to have existed for at least five years, a collection of strategically located buildings and lookout towers controlled by Chinese troops are part of Beijing’s nascent but growing hard-power footprint in the region focused on security in neighboring Afghanistan.

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