Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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CONTEXTUALISING CHINA’S POLICY VIS-À-VIS AFGHANISTAN: KABUL IN BEIJING’S WORLD VISION

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CHINESE INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN: AN APPRAISAL

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CHINA PLAYING MEDIATOR: UNLIKELY GAME-CHANGER

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PROSPECTS FOR CHINA’S INTERVENTION IN AFGHANISTAN

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CONCLUSION

About the Author

Hugo Chéné

Hugo Chéné is a Research Intern at the IPCS. His areas of research are Afghanistan, the Central Asian Republics and China. At present, he is working on a research paper on the Chinese policy in Afghanistan and its impacts on the South Asian security architecture. Hugo is currently a graduate student of ‘Politics and Development in Developing Countries' at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Sciences (Hons) from the same university, where his dissertation was on the concept of ethnicity in Afghan politics. He is also member of a student organisation called Heurasie that aims to promote awareness about Asian countries and cultures among the students of his university.