Post-2014 Afghanistan Policy and the Limitations of China’s Global Role

Although China is Afghanistan’s neighbor, strategic partner, and one of its largest foreign investors, it has kept a low profile overall on Afghanistan compared to other states in the region. This article seeks to understand China’s Afghanistan policy within the context of the Chinese government’s overall approach to foreign affairs. A review of China’s Afghanistan policy show a reluctant involvement, with domestic economic and security interests leading and foreign policy following. A final section examines the uncertain policy environment that China faces in devising an Afghanistan policy and some of the scenarios that Chinese scholars envisage for Afghanistan post-2014.

Author

• Wishnick, Elizabeth

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00101009

Keyword

• NATO
• SCO
• Afghanistan
• Central Asia
• China

Date created

• 2014

Type of Work

• Article

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Central Asian Affairs Journal

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/sf268583w

In Collection:

• Central Asian Affairs

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