Qing vs Afsharid Conflict

In a theoretical conflict between Nader Shah led Persia vs Qianlong led China over Central Asia, which power has more chances to win in the region? Both states were powerful and were on a winning streak...
 
Nader shahs side already has contacts in Central Asia and the political language is similar enough to make allies- further it’s closer to his power base than Qianlong who would have enormous supply chains and be almost completely alien in terms of political ideology. The real question is, could an Afsharid presence west of Dzungaria affect the outcome of the Qing Dzungar wars? Nader Shah would provide a Muslim presence for uyghur Turks under Dzungar rule to transfer their fifth columning to and there’s a chance he’d be less genocidal when he’s done as well (although Delhi would suggest otherwise)
 
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Nader shahs side already has contacts in Central Asia and the political language is similar enough to make allies- further it’s closer to his power base than Qianlong who would have enormous supply chains and be almost completely alien in terms of political ideology. The real question is, could an Afsharid presence west of Dzungaria affect the outcome of the Qing Dzungar wars? Nader Shah would provide a Muslim presence for uyghur Turks under Dzungar rule to transfer their fifth columning to and there’s a chance he’d be less genocidal when he’s done as well (although Delhi would suggest otherwise)

Less genocidal to the Dzungars? Possibly. They might be a tool to influence further into Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia but this means conflict with China is unavoidable.

Nader died around 58-59 of age. He could live at best, 10-15 years of healthy life meaning that he remains until 1757-1762, enough to wage wars after Qianglong finishes of the Dzungars.

I wonder if Nader can use the Dzungars to counter the Chinese, or even convert them. But Dzungars may be too attached to their Buddhist religion.
 
In a theoretical conflict between Nader Shah led Persia vs Qianlong led China over Central Asia, which power has more chances to win in the region? Both states were powerful and were on a winning streak...
There had been Zorastrian exiles in China. Maybe Quinglong uses them in some way.
 
There had been Zorastrian exiles in China. Maybe Quinglong uses them in some way.
They can't be. The zoroastrian exiles, ie narsieh, peroz, and their ilk, are completely forgotten after 729. They're likely already long, long gone, considering a thousand years had passed.
And, say they were, would anyone actually care?
 
They can't be. The zoroastrian exiles, ie narsieh, peroz, and their ilk, are completely forgotten after 729. They're likely already long, long gone, considering a thousand years had passed.
And, say they were, would anyone actually care?

They also would have no legitimacy considering that the Afsharid were an Iranic empire. The Sassanid nobles in exile carried a dangerous threat only due to the possibility of massed support from pagan, Jewish, Nestorian and Zoroastrian Persians and Syriacs longing to remove the Umayyad or Abbasid rule. The Safavids and Afsharids though, revitalized Iran and Persianism...
 
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