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China to Build Military Base in Tajikistan

China to Build Military Base in Tajikistan
Military MI-8 helicopter takes part in the Echelon-2021 Collective Security Treaty Organization member states joint military drills at the Kharb-Maydon training ground near the Afghan border, in Tajikistan.  (Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik via AP)

Friday, 29 October 2021 07:07 AM EDT

China will finance the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan's police near the Tajik-Afghan border, the Central Asian nation's parliament said on Thursday.

The post will be located in Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in the Pamir mountains, which border China's Xinjiang province as well as the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan.

No Chinese troops will be stationed at the facility, a parliament spokesperson said.

The plan to build the post comes amid tension between the Dushanbe government and Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers.

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon has refused to recognize the Taliban government, calling for a broader representation of Afghanistan's ethnic groups - of which Tajiks are the second-biggest.

Kabul, in turn, has warned Dushanbe against meddling in its domestic affairs. According to Russian media, the Taliban have struck an alliance with an ethnic Tajik militant group based in northern Afghanistan which seeks to overthrow Rakhmon's government.

A Russia-led regional security organization held exercises last week near the Tajik-Afghan border, designed to demonstrate that Moscow stands ready to protect Dushanbe in the event of an incursion from the south.

China is a major investor in Tajikistan and Beijing has also acted as a donor on several occasions, handing over, for example, a new parliament building free of charge. 

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