{"id":959,"date":"2020-12-01T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/?p=959"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:43:30","slug":"chinas-next-border-friction-may-be-with-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/2020\/12\/01\/chinas-next-border-friction-may-be-with-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s next border friction may be with Afghanistan, the \u2018graveyard of empires\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An excerpt from the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em> featuring Professor Wishnick is included below. To read the full article, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3110713\/chinas-next-border-friction-may-be-afghanistan-graveyard\">South China Morning Post article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick, professor of political science at Montclair State University in New Jersey, said Beijing had not ruled out intervening directly in Afghanistan and was looking for more covert means of doing so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">\u201cChina has been developing private security forces that could potentially work in high conflict areas like Afghanistan,\u201d said Wishnick, who runs China\u2019s Resource Risks, a website analysing the risks of China\u2019s resource-related projects around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\">\u201cChinese experts continually say their country will never send troops into Afghanistan,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this apparently does not apply to border security forces or private military companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Elizabeth Wishnick provides an expert opinion in this recent South China Morning Post story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}