Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan's Taliban, in Tianjin [Li Ran / Xinhua/AFP]
New York Times: China Offers the Taliban a Warm Welcome While Urging Peace Talks
China offered a high-profile public stage to the Taliban on Wednesday, declaring that the group rapidly retaking large parts of Afghanistan would play “an important role in the process of peaceful reconciliation and reconstruction” of the country.
Chinese officials began two days of talks with a delegation of Taliban leaders in Tianjin, a coastal city in northeastern China, significantly raising the group’s international stature after steady military gains that have taken advantage of the withdrawal of American and NATO combat forces.
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called the Taliban “a pivotal military and political force,” but urged their leaders “to hold high the banner of peace talks,” according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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WNU Editor: It looks like Beijing is banking on the Taliban running Afghanistan soon .... China brands America's involvement in Afghanistan a 'failure' and hails the Taliban as an 'pivotal military and political force' in first talks after the US-led troop withdrawal (Daily Mail).
Update: This is music to Beijing .... Taliban tell China Afghanistan will not be base for separatists (Arab News).
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