Maybe the Great Game will now be China vs India?
Why did India open a back channel to the Taliban?
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...to-the-taliban
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India decided to form back channel communications with relatively friendly factions of the Taliban to avoid losing strategic space to its regional rivals, especially Pakistan, after the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Russia sits uneasy on the sidelines
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"We are closely following what is happening in Afghanistan, where the situation tends to deteriorate rapidly, including in the context of the hasty withdrawal of American and other NATO troops," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
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https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotsp...a_afghanistan/