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The return of the Taliban has been perceived as a victory not only for Pakistan but also for China. While Pakistan has always supported the Taliban, China emerged as a sympathiser and friendly ‘Big Brother’ around 2019. In 2019, a Taliban delegation visited Beijing to meet China’s special representative for Afghanistan Deng Xijun. The Taliban and China discussed the outfit’s peace talks with the United States. CHINA MAINSTREAMING TALIBAN Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen had then said on Twitter that the Chinese found the US-Taliban yet-to-be-inked deal “a good framework for the peaceful solution of the Afghan issue”. Shaheen also claimed...
