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Why Tajikistan is emerging as China’s gateway to Afghanistan Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon hold talks in Tajikistan. PHOTO: AFP Why Tajikistan is emerging as China’s gateway to Afghanistan It’s fitting that China and Pakistan joined forces in 2016 to establish the QCCM with Tajikistan and Afghanistan China’s overhauling of Tajikistan’s highway network in its sparsely populated, mountainous, and geographically enormous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) speaks to Beijing’s desire to increasingly rely on that neighbouring country for facilitating its planned connectivity with Afghanistan after the US’ impending withdrawal. Eurasianet, a US-based media outlet partially funded by both the National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Society Foundation, reported on this though in a predictably negative way given the interests of its financiers. Nevertheless, their report served to raise awareness of the important connect

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