Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister met on Wednesday with a delegation of high-level Taliban officials as a bond among them warm ahead of US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A photo posted on the ministry’s website shows Wang Yi posing with the senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and his delegation in Tianjin City, then sat to talk.
A very striking hospitality show has a diplomatic mission appearance when the Taliban keluakes legitimacy.
Wang said China respected the independence of Afghanistan and territorial integrity and always adheres to non-interference in Afghan internal affairs.
He said the withdrawal of US and NATO rushes `revealed the failure of American policy and offered Afghan people important opportunities to stabilize and develop their own country.
“Even though there was no agenda announced for the meeting, China had an interest in pushing the Taliban to give peace talks or at least reduce the level of violence when they devoured the area of Afghan government forces.
China and Afghanistan shared a narrow border in the remote wantant valley, and China had long been worried about the possibility of the abundance of Islamic militancy to the previously unstable area of Xinjiang.
China has also signed offers for oil, gas, and copper mining in Afghanistan, even though they have been active for a long time.
“ Taliban is the power of military and political pivotal in Afghanistan and is expected to play an important role in the process of peace, reconciliation and reconstruction, `Wang said.
China, Wang said, hoping the Taliban would place the interests of the nation and the first people and focus on peace talks, set peaceful goals, setting positive images’ and work for unity among all factions and ethnic groups.
Wang also said China hoped the Taliban would` `agreement deal with the East Turkistan Islamic movement, a Chinese claim group led the boost for independence in Xinjiang, but many experts were even in any operational form.
The Head of the Taliban Religious Council and the Propaganda Committee were also on their way.
US withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31 was seen as a gift for China, the strategic competitor of the Head of Washington, who had long hated the presence of US forces in what was considered its own backyard.
If the Taliban indeed overthrow the US-backed central government, China can obtain a strategic corridor that allows it and the old allies of Pakistan to bring further pressure on Indian rivals.
Baradar’s visit came shortly after Pakistani Foreign Minister and chairman of the intelligence took their trip to China.
Pakistan is seen as a key peace in Afghanistan.
Taliban leadership headquartered in Pakistan and Islamabad has used his leverage, which he said is now reduced, to press the Taliban to speak peacefully.
While the Tianjin meeting can be seen as a cast in the US, Washington has met China and Russia to produce a statement called for the Taliban to hold a peace agreement.
Zalmay Khalilzad, People Point Washington in talks aimed at the end of the decade of war in Afghanistan, also made a short visit to Pakistan earlier this month because the relationship between Islamabad and Kabul reached low.
It has given a perception that the US was involved in demanding efforts to get a peace agreement ahead of the August 31 deadline which also included China.
After the representative of the Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met Wang in Tianjin on Monday, he and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs including Afghanistan in the ‘Global Interest Area’ list that the US and China can work together.
China-Taliban bind warm up before us withdrawal
