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BEIJING: In the US departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard.
Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring risk and instability to that backyard - Central Asia - and possibly even spill over their narrow, remote border into China itself and the heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.
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