{"id":959,"date":"2020-12-01T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/?p=959"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:43:30","slug":"chinas-next-border-friction-may-be-with-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/2020\/12\/01\/chinas-next-border-friction-may-be-with-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s next border friction may be with Afghanistan, the \u2018graveyard of empires\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An excerpt from the South China Morning Post<\/em> featuring Professor Wishnick is included below. To read the full article, please visit the South China Morning Post article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick, professor of political science at ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ University in New Jersey, said Beijing had not ruled out intervening directly in Afghanistan and was looking for more covert means of doing so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cChina has been developing private security forces that could potentially work in high conflict areas like Afghanistan,\u201d said Wishnick, who runs China\u2019s Resource Risks, a website analysing the risks of China\u2019s resource-related projects around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cChinese experts continually say their country will never send troops into Afghanistan,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this apparently does not apply to border security forces or private military companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Elizabeth Wishnick provides an expert opinion in this recent South China Morning Post story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}