The infidel money from China is more important to the Taliban than the jihad of the Uighurs, for now. In any case, it’s noteworthy that China is building this friendship economically, without sending troops.
“Taliban Terms China As Friend Of Afghanistan, Assures Not To Host Uyghur Islamic Militants From Xinjiang,” Swarajya, July 11, 2021:
Terrorist outfit Taliban has said that it perceived China as a ‘friend’ of Afghanistan and has confirmed that it will not host any Uyghur Islamic militants from the Xinjiang province.
It has assured that it will not permit the Uyghur fighters to enter Afghanistan and expressed hopes of holding discussions with Beijing regarding swift investments in reconstruction work….
China is concerned about the Taliban’s rule paving the way for the war-torn country to become a hotbed for the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) linked to Al-Qaeda and is causing revolt and insurgency in Xinjiang.
However, the Taliban has mentioned that it will prohibit any terrorist group, including Al-Qaeda, in their region.
“We have been to China many times and we have good relations with them. China is a friendly country and we welcome it for reconstruction and developing Afghanistan. If (the Chinese) have investments, of course, we will ensure their safety,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told South China Morning Post, as quoted in a report by Business Standard…..
mortimer says
Nature abhors a vacuum and this power vacuum will be filled by communist China. Everyone happy now?
gregbeetham says
The Taliban and China deserve each other, they are both as treacherous as each other.
Frank Anderson says
That is my impression too.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yeah, now the leeches can bleed China. This should be interesting.
JM says
Exactly! Let China pay for these good for nothings. Not a penny of our tax money should be wasted either on the Taliban or their sponsors, Pakistan.
Kepha says
COnisdering that China has poured $$$$$ into Pakistan, yet Pakistan remains one of the world’s poorer countries, what comes next for the next Afghan Talib regime should be interesting.
Infidel says
Will China employ locals in their projects, as they have done nowhere on earth? If the past is any guide, they’ll send PLA troops to work on those projects, and not employ the Afghans, so that the money earned will be solely by their people, who’d then get to spend it in China. That’s exactly what’s happened next door in CPEC, and it’s what goes on in Africa
And when the locals become unhappy, will the Taliban be like Imran Khan’s government in bending over backwards to appease the Chicoms? Or will they join their own people in turning on them?
Frank Anderson says
I don’t know whether this makes any difference: I have been pondering this article for several hours since its original post. If the Chinese believe the TAL LEE BAN (John McCain’s forced pronunciation) I would be amazed. If the TAL LEE BAN believe the Chinese, they are bigger suckers than I can imagine.
I can’t help thinking of the lines in the movie 1776, spoken by the actor playing the representative from South Carolina, in his beautiful, authentic and original South Carolina accent, “Hail Boston! Hail Charleston! Who stinketh the most?” I regret that at the moment I cannot remember the actor’s name. (John Cullum) (looked on the DVD).
Whatever the result as far as other countries outside this pair, we can handle it. We have handled far worse and more challenging.
gravenimage says
Taliban say China is friend of Afghanistan, promise not to allow Uighur jihadis to enter the country
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This does not surprise–the Taliban as just the latest Muslims to throw the Uighurs under the bus.
Several people here had been opining that China would destroy the Taliban–but I have been pointing out that China is already negotiating with them.
Communist China actually has no ideological dedication to opposing Islam–they just don’t want Jihadists in their own country.
Frank Anderson says
GI, that does not mean the Taliban do not wish to carry out the “final, perfect, complete and unchangeable” imperative to conquer, kill or enslave the world.
gravenimage says
Oh, I quite agree, Frank. It just means that for now they are OK with putting China on the back burner. But in the end they hate *all* infidels and all Infidel systems–Commumism and Democracy and everything else, and plan to destroy them all.
overman says
“Communist China actually has no ideological dedication to opposing Islam–they just don’t want Jihadists in their own country.”
Yes, that’s the crux of it. Chine is carrying out Global Economic Colonization while lslam wants Global Jihad. China is in bed with islam and all left-thinking marxists [strange bedfellows considering the different ideojpgies] ; just as islam was with the nazi’s. They’re all using each other, but china is using islam to carry out it’s dirty work in order to weaken borders etc.
The yellow peril is creeping through the cracks.
gravenimage says
They both hope to use the other.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
China has about a ten year window before their demographic nightmare begins. By that time a third of their population will be elderly and weighing down and crippling their worldly aspirations of dominance. They are on the clock and they know it. This paper tiger is desperately seeking ways to ensnare third world countries through loan debts, thus, affording them unfettered access to their natural treasures. Yet, as we’ve seen with all of their tightly controlled, shortsighted and myopic policies, they are bound to fail. This is the nature of communism’s centralized planning. This can be seen in Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” which led to the mass starvation of thirty million Chinese. The outcome of the brutal “One Child Policy” can now be seen in the aforementioned coming demographic calamity. As for the Taliban and the Communist Chinese, one can only surmise that immorality makes for strange bedfellows.
OLD GUY says
Communist China and Jihadist in bed with each other.
What could possibly go wrong here.
Will China become Islamic? I think not.
I think they are both using each other in an attempt to destroy America and the western governments.
If they destroy the west they will then attack each other in an attempt to reach their goal of world domination by Islam or Communist China.
Prediction: If they succeed in their joint goal the islamic countries and the rest of us better learn Chinese.
The western nations and Europe better WAKE UP, being WOKE of POLITICALLY CORRECT is not going to cure this problem or fight on the horizon.
gregbeetham says
Yep, we in the west seem to be in self destruct mode, half of our politicians and constituents and most of the judiciary and academics are in a woke mental fud, even corporate enterprises are doing the same stupid stuff and even more ludicrous than that are the defence forces, they are going woke as well.
Against that backdrop does China even need to fire a shot? All they have to do is wait until we finish ourselves off.
Rbla says
The ‘holy men’ of Islam are quite flexible in the beliefs they always scream about. China is regarded as the ‘strong horse’. Much easier to take on the self-hating idiots who run the nations of the West. Note how when it serves their purposes the mullahs give a pass to loud mouthed women like Omar and Tlaib and even looked the other way when Hillary’s favorite, Huma, married a non-Muslim man since it gave them a political advantage.