ThePrintExplorer: India isn’t the only country hoping for a reset with China at SCO summit & what Afghanistan wants

27/08/2025 18 min Episodio 8733
ThePrintExplorer: India isn’t the only country hoping for a reset with China at SCO summit & what Afghanistan wants

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As three empires—Russia, Britain and China—collided on the roof of the world in the nineteenth century, a tiny strip of uninhabited land in the Pamir Mountains was carved out as a buffer zone. Today, that strip, called the Wakhan Corridor, offers Afghans the hope of a direct land route from Kabul to China, helping bypass Pakistan’s chokehold. What China decides will shape Central Asian geopolitics for generations.

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