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First of all, it's the content you should be looking at. Haaretz is more informative than the daily dose of troll post here that you will need to understand.
that's why READING is important.
the piece is written by a Pakistani, here from the links
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid is a Pakistan-based journalist and a correspondent at The Diplomat.
he got a point for example:
Islamabad’s advertising of its own significance might even be a soft whisper towards China, which has increasingly asserted economic control over Pakistan, but was recently given a painful reminder of the jihadist threat from within Pakistan looming over the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the spine of Beijing’s much touted Belt and Road Initiative.
While the U.S. withdrawal left China to deal with a jihadist regime, armed with arsenal worth millions, Pakistan will struggle to bleed Beijing the way it did Washington.
Thanks to territorial contiguity, and an autocratic, neoliberal diplomacy that puts modern-day Western imperialism in the shade, China can micromanage its interests in Pakistan, leaving little margin for double play.
But for all Pakistan’s noisy attempt to claim ownership over access to the Taliban and Afghanistan, it can’t compete with Beijing’s economic attractions, on which the survival of the new Kabul regime depends.
Ps: I'm largerly ok with OZ and East Timor opinion on Indonesia, in fact 90% of the time.
