Stabilizing Afghanistan a major diplomatic challenge

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People’s Daily (China), 25 September 2012
… including for China, writes a commentator with the interesting name Chen Chenchen in Beijing’s official English-language daily, the Global Times. ‘Many are speculating about the long-term ambitions of Beijing, believing that the emerging power is seeking a larger role in post-NATO Afghanistan and is looking for greater influence in Kabul’, he writes about this ‘first trip made by a senior Chinese leader to [Afghanistan] since 1966’, the People’s Republic ‘is making pragmatic moves to safeguard the interests of not only itself, but also the whole region’.