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As three empires—Russia, Britain and China—collided on the roof of the world in the nineteenth century, a tiny strip of uninhabited land in the Pamir Mountains was carved out as a buffer zone. Today, that strip, called the Wakhan Corridor, offers Afghans the hope of a direct land route from Kabul to China, helping bypass Pakistan’s chokehold. What China decides will shape Central Asian geopolitics for generations.
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The borders that India and China went to war over in 1962, and are now trying to negotiate, were legacies of British imperialism—and held up by its guns. The crisis began in 1947, as Britain’s influence over Tibet ended, plunging the region into chaos. The challenge today is to imagine new borders, free from the shadow of imperialism.
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