By Eric Draitser The current unrest in Balochistan centers
around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings,
assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the
tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in
which the United States and its Western allies are engaged.
Though seemingly insignificant against the backdrop of all the
regional and international crises affecting our world,
Balochistan is, in fact, a nexus: the point at which
diametrically opposing strategic interests converge. The United
States views Balochistan, an area that encompasses western
Pakistan, eastern Iran, and a piece of southern Afghanistan, as
critical to the maintenance of US hegemony in the Middle East
and Central and South Asia. Conversely, China regards the region
as necessary for its own economic and political evolution into a
world superpower. Seen in this way, Balochistan becomes central
to the development of geopolitical power in the 21stCentury.
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