By Franz J. Marty
February 3, 2017, the CACI Analyst
Overwhelming evidence – photographs, an eyewitness account and several confirming statements of diplomats and observers, among them a Chinese official familiar with the matter – leaves virtually no doubt that Chinese troops have undertaken joint patrols with their Afghan (and possibly also Tajik) counterparts on Afghan soil in the Little Pamir, a high plateau near the Afghan-Chinese border. While the Chinese source insists that such joint border patrols were based on an agreement, and therefore legal, the Afghan government steadfastly denies the existence of such patrols.
- Afghanistan
- China
- Central Asia
- Little Pamir
- Tajikistan
- Badakhshan province
- Xinjiang province
- Uyghur people
- East Turkestan Islamic Movement
- Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism
- Pakistan
- Chinese Ministry of Defense
- Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs
- Afghan Border Police
- Extremism
- Counterterrorist Operations