China Says Ready For "Friendly Relations" With Taliban

Monday, 16 August 2021Newsdesk

China is ready to deepen "friendly and cooperative" relations with Afghanistan, a government spokeswoman said Monday, after the Taliban seized control of the country.

New Delhi, 16 August 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Beijing has sought to maintain unofficial ties with the Taliban throughout the US' withdrawal from Afghanistan, which spurred an advance by the Islamist hardliners across the country that saw them capture the capital Kabul on Sunday.China shares a rugged 76-kilometre (47-mile) border with Afghanistan.Beijing has long feared Afghanistan could become a staging point for Muslim minority Uyghur separatists in Xinjiang.But a top-level Taliban delegation met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Tianjin last month, promising that Afghanistan would not be used as a base for militants.

Source -NDTV