The cover article of the latest issue of the Taliban's official Arabic-language Al-Sumud monthly magazine envisions a post-war order in which a Taliban victory in Afghanistan sparks a pan-Asian anti-imperialist renaissance.
Strikingly, it endorses a vision of Asian identity and political unity over a pan-Islamic one.
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The article promotes ties with China and Russia, and does not just pointedly ignore the Muslim Uyghurs and Chechens, but even rails against supposed Western plans to dismantle China and Russia. The author, also hints at one point that the Taliban will not let the Central Asian and Chechen jihadists stand in the way of its rapprochement with Russia. This pan-Asian outlook is constructed in opposition to the imperialist capitalist West; for instance, he writes that in the future white Australians will have the choice of either returning to Europe, assimilating into Asia, or being conquered as "lebensraum" for continental Asians.
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