Collapse of American-backed government in Afghanistan is opportunity for Russia & China ‘to fill the vacuum,’ EU chiefs claim

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As the last US and EU forces leave Kabul, Brussels’ foreign policy committee has warned that the failure of the Western mission in the Central Asian nation has opened a vast gulf that its purported adversaries will rush to fill.

In a statement issued on Monday, a group of senior EU parliamentarians expressed concern over the withdrawal and the collapse of the Washington-backed government. The missive was signed by MEPs David McAllister, who heads Brussels’ foreign affairs committee, Tomas Tobe, the chair of the committee on development, and Petras Austrevicius, who leads the EU’s delegation for relations with Afghanistan.

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