by BARBARA MacLEAN
Now that the Yankees rulers have left Afghanistan after 20 years of failure and trillions of dollars wasted, this opens up a more direct relationship between Afghanistan and China. But the Chinese are socialists and the Taliban are fundamentalists. Is it possible for the project of a New Silk Road to unite them? The bulk of this article describes the options of trade routes through Afghanistan and the pros and cons of each.
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