Tajikistan has accepted a Chinese offer to build a police outpost on the Afghan border
China will spend about $8.6 million USD on the facility before turning it over to Tajik control.
It’s the latest indication of Beijing’s growing security concerns in the region after the US ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan.
The base points to deepening security cooperation between impoverished Tajikistan and China, which is reported to maintain another base in the southeast of the ex-Soviet country.
No Chinese personnel will be housed at the facility even though the nation has expressed concerns about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
A New Chinese Military Base in Tajikistan close to the Afghanistan border! This is the second one. https://t.co/rct06vadaK
— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) October 28, 2021
It has urged the new Taliban Government to prevent terror groups from forming.
Beijing has routinely denied its overseas military facilities as bases. Tajikistan has also denied a Chinese military presence in the country.
Tajikistan, a country of 9.5 million, has received financial assistance from both China and the United States to build and reinforce its border posts and hosts a major Russian military base.
