{"id":1412604,"date":"2022-03-31T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412604"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:46:30","slug":"china-xi-jinping-encourages-world-to-embrace-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-xi-jinping-encourages-world-to-embrace-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Xi Jinping Encourages World to Embrace Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-xi-jinping-encourages-world-to-embrace-taliban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Chinese dictator Xi Jinping praised the \u201csovereignty, independence and territorial integrity\u201d of Afghanistan in a message to a foreign ministers\u2019 meeting featuring a Taliban representative on Thursday, encouraging neighboring countries to \u201cdo their best\u201d to support the \u201cAfghan people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is currently hosting a two-day summit in Anhui province of regional leaders to discuss the future of Afghanistan. Taliban \u201cForeign Minister\u201d\u00a0Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/30\/taliban-lands-china-meeting-future-afghanistan\/\">arrived<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday and is participating in conversations with China and other top diplomats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>No state actor has yet recognized the Taliban jihadist organization as the formal government of Afghanistan, but China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/28\/iran-china-legitimize-taliban-as-interim-government-of-afghanistan\/\">referred<\/a> to the group as an \u201cinterim\u201d or \u201ccaretaker\u201d government and encouraged cooperation with it on alleged humanitarian grounds. Chinese officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/24\/china-prepares-afghanistan-business-expo-to-unleash-talibans-market-potential\/\">encouraged<\/a> business leaders to invest in Afghanistan and America, specifically, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/25\/afghanistan-china-warns-america-not-to-sanction-the-taliban\/\">fund<\/a> the success of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ps\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0686\u06cc\u0646 \u06a9\u06d0 \u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u067e\u0647 \u0627\u0693\u0647 \u062f \u0633\u06cc\u0645\u064a \u062f \u0628\u0647\u0631\u0646\u06cc\u0648 \u0686\u0627\u0631\u0648 \u0648\u0632\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u063a\u0648\u0646\u0689\u0647 \u067e\u06cc\u0644 \u0634\u0648\u0647. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rP6xoK2Hte\">pic.twitter.com\/rP6xoK2Hte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bilal Karimi(\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u06a9\u0631\u06cc\u0645\u064a) (@BilalKarimi21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BilalKarimi21\/status\/1509404795173539846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the Taliban, China invited the top diplomats of\u00a0Pakistan,\u00a0Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and Qatar \u2013 not a neighbor, but host to the Taliban\u2019s \u201cpolitical office\u201d for much of the 20-year Afghan war \u2013 to the summit. America notably does not have representation at the meeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cChinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to do their best to support the Afghan people to create a brighter future,\u201d the state-run Xinhua News Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220331\/7924c45006784c4f89e8f0a43796924c\/c.html\">reported<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cXi pointed out that having gone through so much in the past, Afghanistan is in urgent need of development in many areas. The country has come to a critical point of transition from chaos to order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet quoted Xi as praising Afghanistan under the Taliban as a \u201ccommon neighbor and partner \u2026 and we form a community with a shared future linked by the same mountains and rivers who would rise and fall together.\u201d Afghanistan borders occupied East Turkistan, where China is currently committing genocide against members of Muslim ethnic minority groups.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban is a Sunni jihadist organization, it has expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/07\/09\/taliban-welcomes-china-afghanistan-vows-not-help-uyghur-muslims\/\">no concern<\/a> regarding the genocide of Muslims across its border. Conversely, China has not pressured the Taliban regarding its open ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/09\/02\/al-qaeda-taliban-victory-afghanistan\/\">al-Qaeda<\/a> and other global terrorist groups, its prominent role in international drug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/07\/31\/drought-cripples-talibans-record-high-opium-production-amid-peace-talks\/\">trafficking<\/a>, or its flagrant human rights abuses, particularly against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/28\/inclusive-taliban-segregates-public-parks-by-sex-woman-allowed-3-days-week\/\">women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina always respects Afghanistan\u2019s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and has committed to supporting its pursuit of peace, stability and development,\u201d Xi\u2019s message read.<\/p>\n<p>Xi did not attend the summit, but sent a written <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220331\/7924c45006784c4f89e8f0a43796924c\/c.html\">message<\/a> to the foreign ministers, according to Xinhua. Xi was <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220330\/76e74c60834c482fbaf128222520f945\/c.html\">busy<\/a> this week planting trees in Beijing. Tunxi, the Anhui province area hosting the Afghanistan summit, is about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/flights?tfs=CAcQAhojEgoyMDIyLTA0LTE2agcIARIDVFhOcgwIAhIIL20vMDE5MTQaIxIKMjAyMi0wNC0yMGoMCAISCC9tLzAxOTE0cgcIARIDVFhO&#038;source=maps&#038;hl=en&#038;authuser=0\">two hours<\/a> from Beijing by plane.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday planted trees in Beijing in the 10th year of his participation in the annual tree-planting activity as the top leader, demonstrating how much he values efforts to make the country&#8217;s land greener <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WdhQobqrZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/0WdhQobqrZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TzipJUe5xH\">pic.twitter.com\/TzipJUe5xH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China Xinhua News (@XHNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XHNews\/status\/1509445620763099147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Xi\u2019s remarks did not name the Taliban in any way, sticking to the Communist Party\u2019s typical use of the term \u201cAfghan people\u201d when discussing sending funding and other aid to Afghanistan that would inevitably fall into Taliban hands. Xi also did not acknowledge, according to the reports in state media, the presence of the Taliban\u2019s \u201cforeign minister\u201d at the meeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Muttaqi, the foreign minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/30\/taliban-lands-china-meeting-future-afghanistan\/\">held<\/a> talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and Pakistan\u2019s envoy to the summit on Wednesday. The Taliban\u2019s press agency published photos and videos of Muttaqi landing in Anhui to warm greetings from Chinese officials. The meeting, Taliban deputy spokesman Bilal Karimi announced, focused heavily on \u201ceconomic cooperation.\u201d Muttaqi specifically noted that the Taliban is interested in joining China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure plan in which China offers impoverished countries predatory loans it later uses to seize strategically significant territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan supports China\u2019s major Belt and Road Initiative and is keen to see Afghanistan play a useful role in regional integration through this project,\u201d Muttaqi reportedly said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ps\" dir=\"rtl\">\u06f1\u0640\u0640 \u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646\u060c \u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0648 \u0686\u06cc\u0646 \u062f \u0628\u0647\u0631\u0646\u06cc\u0648 \u0686\u0627\u0631\u0648 \u0648\u0632\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0648 \u067e\u0647 \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d0 \u0644\u0647 \u062a\u062d\u0648\u0644 \u0648\u0631\u0648\u0633\u062a\u0647 \u067e\u0647 \u0644\u0648\u0645\u0693\u064a \u0681\u0644 \u062f\u0631\u06d0 \u0627\u0693\u062e\u06cc\u0632 \u0645\u06cc\u06a9\u0627\u0646\u06cc\u0632\u0645 \u0628\u06cc\u0627 \u0698\u0648\u0646\u062f\u06cc \u06a9\u0693. <\/p>\n<p>\u067e\u0647 \u0646\u0646\u0646\u06cd \u062f\u0631\u06d0 \u0627\u0693\u062e\u06cc\u0632\u0647 \u0646\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0647 \u06a9\u06d0 \u0686\u064a \u067e\u0647 \u0686\u06cc\u0646 \u06a9\u06d0 \u062a\u0631 \u0633\u0631\u0647 \u0634\u0648\u0647 \u062f \u0686\u06cc\u0646 \u062f \u0628\u0647\u0631\u0646\u06cc\u0648 \u0686\u0627\u0631\u0648 \u0648\u0632\u06cc\u0631 \u069a\u0627\u063a\u0644\u064a \u0648\u0627\u0646\u06ab \u064a\u064a \u0648\u0648\u06cc\u0644\u060c \u0644\u06d0\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0647 \u062f\u06cc \u0686\u06d0 \u062f\u0631\u06d0 \u0627\u0693\u062e\u06cc\u0632\u0647 \u0646\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0647 \u0628\u06cc\u0627 \u0698\u0648\u0646\u062f\u06cd \u0634\u064a \u0627\u0648 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BjXR89qP9E\">pic.twitter.com\/BjXR89qP9E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bilal Karimi(\u0628\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u06a9\u0631\u06cc\u0645\u064a) (@BilalKarimi21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BilalKarimi21\/status\/1509117780137754631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s\u00a0Global Times government propaganda newspaper emphasized the major role Afghanistan under the Taliban could play in the BRI on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the current circumstances, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan should restart the tripartite cooperation mechanism and advance cooperation in the three areas of politics, development and security,\u201d the\u00a0Global Times paraphrased Wang as proposing, \u201cbased on the principles of mutual respect, equal consultation and mutual benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative, extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan, and help Afghanistan participate in regional connectivity, he noted,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257282.shtml\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the remarks were made at a meeting with an official Taliban representative, China is\u00a0<em>de facto<\/em> treating Afghanistan as synonymous with the Taliban despite not formally recognizing the Taliban as the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in its online pages, the Global Times took the time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257257.shtml\">condemn<\/a> the United States for Afghanistan\u2019s current humanitarian crisis, the result of 20 years of war greatly exacerbated by Taliban atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world should not forget about Afghanistan, and the US, as the culprit of the Afghan problem, should not deliberately ignore and avoid the country,\u201d the outlet proclaimed in an editorial. \u201cOf course, we can\u2019t expect too much from the US, a country that has divided $7 billion of life-saving money which belongs to the Afghan people in the face of an \u2018avalanche of hunger and poverty.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20464454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1237637718.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/The Afghanistan embassy in Beijing on January 10, 2022 where Afghanistan\u2019s envoy to China announced his resignation on social media via colorful handover note, detailing how diplomats had not been paid for six months following the Taliban takeover. (NOEL CELIS\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Times claimed America has \u201ca greater responsibility to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and to participate in the reconstruction activities in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist for much of the 1990s, losing power when America invaded following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The Taliban\u2019s direct ties with al-Qaeda, the group responsible for the attacks \u2013 which continue to this day through its relationship with the notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/27\/biden-state-department-falsely-denies-taliban-terrorist-haqqani-network-ties\/\">Haqqani<\/a> network \u2013 led President George W. Bush to launch a campaign to remove the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban returned to power in August 2021 after President Joe Biden announced he would break a deal brokered by predecessor Donald Trump and extend the war from May to September of that year. By August, Biden had abruptly agreed to withdraw all troops, prompting the Taliban to enter Kabul and resulting in the flight of former President Ashraf Ghani from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese dictator Xi Jinping praised the \u201csovereignty, independence and territorial integrity\u201d of Afghanistan in a message to a foreign ministers\u2019 meeting featuring a Taliban representative on Thursday, encouraging neighboring countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}