Jagannath Panda was quoted by the South China Morning Post about how Trump’s push for an Afghan air base is potentially creating a new flashpoint in US-China rivalry
September 21, 2025: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the South China Morning Post about how Trump’s push for an Afghan air base is potentially creating a new flashpoint in US-China rivalry.
“Strategically, even the rhetoric pressures China’s western theatre – Xinjiang and Qinghai – and could revive great-power competition across Central and South Asia’s air corridors,” says Jagannath Panda.