Kazakhstan crisis challenges Beijing’s reticence to interfere abroad

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“China’s peacekeeping experience informs their evolving approach to broader foreign security engagement,” said Courtney Fung, an associate professor at Macquarie University … “China maintains a positive public record for its peacekeeping activities. However, China’s recent combat troop deployment experiences in Mali and South Sudan, where Chinese troops were attacked and killed, reinforce China’s view that contested consent and militarised, domestic quagmires are dangerous conditions for interventions.”