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china building a base for tajikistan’s police near afghan border

All construction is funded by the Chinese side and after construction, the base will be transferred to the Tajik police

ALMATY: China will build a base for police in Tajikistan near the Afghan border. This security base will enable Tajikistan to strengthen its surveillance on extremist groups.

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.

A parliamentary spokesman said that Tajikistan’s lower house had approved the plan to build the base in the Ishkashim district of the mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan province.

“All construction is funded by the Chinese side and after construction, the base will be transferred to the Tajik police,” the spokesman added.

He said China was providing $8.5 million (7.3 million euros) in assistance for the base. Asked about reports of the base, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters: “I am not aware of the situation you mentioned.”

China has looked to build relations with the Taliban following their takeover of Afghanistan.

While other Central Asian nations have established working ties with the new regime in Afghanistan, Tajikistan has railed against and eschewed direct talks.

The republic’s authoritarian leader Emomali Rakhmon expressed alarm about what he called “terrorist groups” positioned at points along its more than 1,300-kilometre (810-mile) border with the country.

The groups Rakhmon referred to are believed to count former and current Tajik nationals among their members.

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.

Beijing has said nothing about the reported outpost, which the International Crisis Group said in 2018 pointed to China’s “growing security presence” in former Soviet Central Asia.

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