5 Lessons for China from the U.S. Failure in Afghanistan

A Taliban fighter at the airport in Kabul on September 14, 2021. Karim SAHIB / AFP

Chinese foreign policy think tank scholars have been studying what led to the dramatic collapse of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, which culminated last month with the fall of the government and the hasty evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

Li Kaisheng 李开盛, deputy director of the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, wrote an interesting analysis this week on the institute’s WeChat channel about what Chinese policymakers should learn from the U.S. experience.

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