Traders from Pakistan travel with yaks and cattle brought from the Wakhan Corridor of Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan in 2017. Photo: AFP
What is the Wakhan Corridor and why is China worried about it?
- China has always been wary of narrow, isolated strip of Afghan land high in the mountains becoming a conduit for Uygur militancy in Xinjiang
- The Taliban’s coming to power in Afghanistan has compounded China’s worries of a spillover, given the militant Islamic group’s ties with the ETIM
Traders from Pakistan travel with yaks and cattle brought from the Wakhan Corridor of Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan in 2017. Photo: AFP
