Can the new Silk Road through Afghanistan tame the Taliban?

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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