The Chinese Communist Party invited the Taliban to the “Foreign Minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi in Beijing this weekend after insurance, Beijing will offer continuous support to jihadist leaders at a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Muttaqi accepted and will visit the Chinese capital “later this month,” reported The Afghan Outlet Tolo News.
China sent its first diplomat on the issues of Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, to meet senior Taliban officials this weekend on a certain number of questions, most prominent economic cooperation and China helping to legitimize the Taliban as a formal government of Afghanistan.
The Taliban has been in power in the country since August 15, 2021, when the government supported by the United States of the president of the time, Ashraf Ghani, collapsed, sending Ghani fleeing abroad.
The Taliban had carried out a campaign of conquest throughout this year with tens of thousands of attacks which had actually dismantled the Afghan armed forces in response to the American president of the time, Joe Biden, announcing that he would prolong the Afghan war of 20 years beyond the end of the date established by the predecessor and the successor Donald Trump.
While the Taliban approaches four years of undisputed power, no foreign state has recognized the Sunni jihadist terrorist organization as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and many international financial and diplomatic institutions in the world refused to incorporate its leadership. The United Nations allows the deceased Ghani government to keep diplomats at its outposts in New York and Geneva, although he invited Taliban terrorists at its annual climate alarmism, the Conference of the Parties (COP).
While not officially accepting the legitimacy of the Taliban, the United Nations Security Council voted to approve cooperation with “relevant Afghan political actors” by its members in 2022; The Taliban are the only “relevant political actors” that remains in Afghanistan.
China has managed the few countries willing to interact with the Taliban by accepting their allegedly “temporary” political vehicle status and is the only country in the world officially to welcome Taliban ambassador representing Afghanistan, Bilal Karimi.
Yue visited Kabul in this context, alongside a representative of the government of neighboring Pakistan. Taliban leaders have published photos showing Yue and Muttaqi, the best Taliban diplomat, warmly greeting in the meeting.
According to For Tolo News, Yue “discussed the expansion of political and economic relations and stressed that Beijing will continue to support Afghanistan at the international level”, probably meaning the support of the world to recognize the Taliban as a government in good faith. Yue would also have “extended an official invitation to Muttaqi to visit China”.
A Taliban spokesman said Muttaqi “warmly welcomed” the invitation to visit Beijing “later this month” and had to make the trip. Afghan media reports did not specify if Muttaqi would visit themselves in the context of a larger international event or if the Taliban trip to China would be its own diplomatic event.
Muttaqi is no stranger to diplomacy with China and has led efforts to deepen the Taliban on the orbit of China. In 2022, Taliban terrorists visited Tunxi, in China, to attend an event dedicated to the empowerment of the Taliban, led by China, but to the presence of other regional actors. Muttaqi used The opportunity to tackle the diplomatic event “countries neighboring Afghanistan more in Afghanistan” to demand legal recognition and condemn the United States so as not to finance the success of the Taliban.
“Afghanistan expects its neighboring countries to offer diplomatic recognition of the Afghan temporary government at the time,” said Muttaqi at the time, the Chinese Foreign Ministry. “”[T]The United States has undergone the political and economic sovereignty of Afghanistan for a long time and destroyed and damaged installations during its hasty withdrawal, which made Afghanistan are currently having great difficulties. »»
“Afghanistan is no longer ready to depend on the others and will no longer count on the alms of Western countries led by the United States,” he proclaimed in his comments. “He urges the United States to immediately raise freezing on assets abroad in Afghanistan and unreasonable sanctions against Afghanistan, and hopes that the international community will provide support and assistance to Afghanistan.”
Muttaqi met his counter then from China, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qin Gang, in April 2023, almost a year after his visit to Beijing.
China's ambassador to Afghanistan Zhao Xing (C) is looking at a ribbon cup ceremony to inaugurate a copper depot extraction project My Aynak, in the Shast Bandari region of the Mohammad Agha district in Logar Province on July 24, 2024. By war. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty)
During this meeting, taking place in Uzbekistan, Qin insured Muttaqi that China supports the Taliban, claiming that Beijing “respects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Afghanistan, and the independent choice made by the Afghan people.” The Chinese government has always described the violent reversal of the Taliban as the Afghan government as “the Afghan people”.
Qin also said that China would help the Taliban, a radical Islamist terrorist group, to build “inclusive and moderate governance” and welcomed the Taliban to “advance belt and road cooperation”. While the genocidal dictator Xi Jinping has since purged Qin of his government, China's policies towards the Taliban have remained favorable. The Taliban officially asked for belonging to the Chinese belt and road (BRI) initiative in 2023, expanding its commercial opportunities with Beijing. The BRI is a global diagram of debt trap in which China offers predatory loans to poor countries intended to be used to pay Chinese companies to build expensive and often useless infrastructure projects. The BRI of China is particularly active and destructive, in neighboring Pakistan.
A representative of the Pakistani government would have seal Meetings this weekend with the Taliban and the Chinese envoy. The Afghan points of sale said that the three “would have agreed to limit the strategic footprint of India to Afghanistan”, a notable decision given India and recent hostilities of Pakistan following a terrorist attack in Jammu-et-Cachemire of India. Meanwhile, the Chinese imprint in Afghanistan has extended considerably. As the AMU TV of Afghanistan reported this weekend reported, “the Taliban authorities awarded Chinese agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including a gold extraction concession in the province of Takhar and a cement project in Logar.”
