Commentary The collapse of the government of Afghanistan on Aug. 15 was a disaster for the Biden administration, but it set the stage for the new Central Asian regional competition between China, Russia, and India. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supported the Taliban in displacing both the Afghan government and the United States from the region. Russia also has an interest in seeing an unstable situation be maintained in Afghanistan for the time being, but it has an even greater mission to ensure that Taliban (and other radical Islamic) activities do not cross back over the northern Afghanistan border into the five Central Asian states. Moscow hopes to coerce them, through the need for security support against the Taliban, back into close alliance with Russia. Russia hopes that it can restore its suzerainty over Central Asia and join it with an Iran which remains anti-U.S. It is a culmination to …
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