To understand China’s plans for Afghanistan, take a look at Somalia

[Deeq A.]

The term “The Great Game” was coined to describe the great power competition between tsarist Russia and the British Empire in Afghanistan during the 19th Century. With the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban over the weekend, the term is still being used and abused as analysts and others try to divine the future of the country and what other powers might do.

Source: Hiiraan Online