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Pakistan - Geopolitics of the double game? (2019x10)

Data di messa in onda: Apr 13, 2019

Today the nuclear power Pakistan is approaching China; for a long time it was allied with the Americans and yet it is said to have given shelter to Osama bin Laden. Relations with the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan are also ambivalent. Is the country playing a double game on the geopolitical stage? Pakistan's history has always been marked by violence. Islamic fundamentalism and conflicts with its neighbour India have always played a role; since the beginning of the 2000s, tensions with the USA and the entire Western world have been added. Today the nuclear power Pakistan is approaching China; for a long time it was allied with the Americans and yet it is said to have given Osama bin Laden shelter. Relations with the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan are also ambivalent. Is the country playing a double game on the geopolitical stage? [arte]