The PRC is becoming increasingly active in the region of Central and South Asia

At this point in the “Great World Game,” everything that is happening in Central and South Asia (CSA) is playing an increasingly important role. CSA here will mean a vast territory, with at least a dozen countries located on it today. From Kazakhstan in the north to Sri Lanka in the south and from Nepal in the east to Iran in the west.

All of them differ sharply from each other in the size of the territories, the population, the level of economic development and, consequently, the significance in the very “game.” For instance, it comprises India, which currently stands as one of the prominent global forces, possessing nuclear weapons in particular. As does, by the way, another significant regional player, Pakistan.

Throughout history, this region has attracted the attention of the major world players of the moment. Among the earliest are the empire of Alexander the Great, and the most recent is the United States. Among the various reasons for interest in the CSA is that the region has always served as a bridge of communication between Western and Eastern civilizations. And, consequently, there has been a temptation to try to establish “power control” over it.

Such attempts have invariably failed. The main reason was that each new “controller” was faced with a sea of “local” problems, most of which he had not even guessed about beforehand. And therefore, sometime after arriving in the region in order to establish the very “control,” the newcomer, having destroyed a lot of money and people, sooner or later realized that everything was useless. And with this feeling, he got out of this region.

Outwardly, the completion of a hundred-year mission to establish “control” by the United Kingdom took place here gently and skillfully. A signal in the style of “from here on out you’re on your own, fellas” was adopted in the summer of 1947 by a legislative act of the British Parliament, in accordance with which two independent states were separated from the former British India, namely “Republic of India” and “Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”

In order to remove any suspicion of complicity in provoking the impending catastrophe (the traces of which still serve as a major component of the overall state of turbulence in the region), the so-called “Lahore Declaration” was the basis of the said act. It was drafted in 1940 by a group of Islamic activists who claimed to represent all Muslims in British India. In other words, London “made a timely move” out of a region that was “on the brink of great” trouble.

Much less skillfully, and outwardly just clumsily (and even shamefully), 75 years later the same procedure was done by the current “big brother” of London, that is Washington. Namely when Joe Biden’s administration completed the long (stretched over several years) process of the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a country that has absorbed almost all the problems of the region and has always been in the focus of political games……..more here

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