{"id":431235,"date":"2021-08-18T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431235"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T06:56:39","slug":"is-china-about-to-tuck-afghanistan-under-its-belt-and-road-heres-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/is-china-about-to-tuck-afghanistan-under-its-belt-and-road-heres-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China about to tuck Afghanistan under its belt and road? Here&#8217;s what you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China won\u2019t be rushing into Afghanistan any time soon \u2014 not to fill the political and security void left by the U.S. and not to expand President Xi Jinping\u2019s flagship Belt and Road project.<\/p>\n<p>However decisive the Taliban\u2019s victory looks right now, the country is far too fragile for Beijing to contemplate anything other than a pragmatic diplomatic engagement with a group it has spent decades trying to work with. It may dangle the promise of enhanced economic relations in front of an Islamist insurgent movement looking to cement key regional relationships, but the likelihood of any infrastructure projects materializing in the short-term is remote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China won\u2019t be rushing into Afghanistan any time soon \u2014 not to fill the political and security void left by the U.S. and not to expand President Xi Jinping\u2019s flagship Belt and Road project. However decisive the Taliban\u2019s victory looks right now, the country is far too fragile for Beijing to contemplate anything other than a pragmatic diplomatic engagement with a group it has spent decades trying to work with. It may dangle the promise of enhanced economic relations in front of an Islamist insurgent movement looking to cement key regional relationships, but the likelihood of any infrastructure projects materializing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}