CCTV Network’s video released to play down Taliban's ties to terrorism, deleted after criticism.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) reported today (18th August 2021) that China’s China Central Television (CCTV) Network released a video introducing the Taliban on 16th, which downplayed the relationship between the Taliban and terrorism, triggering criticism from Chinese netizens. According to the online backup video, CCTV said the Taliban was born during the civil war in Afghanistan, and its members were mainly students from refugee camps, initially there were only 800 people, because of the support of the Afghan poor, their strength expanded rapidly. The film also said that the Taliban armed forces captured Kabul in 1996 to establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; after 9/11, the Taliban regime was overthrown by the United States, starting a 20-year war.

The video was once ranked fifth on Weibo's top ten search list, and prompted many netizens to question it. Some people criticized the film for not mentioning terrorism, while others asked the Taliban, "Is that the one who blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas?"

A Beijing resident surnamed Guo said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on the 17th that his impression was that the Taliban in Afghanistan had provided a hideout for Osama bin Laden, the fugitive mastermind of 9/11, and not a refugee organization. He said, "In my early image, the Taliban is an international terrorist organization, and there are terrorist activities on the border and within Afghanistan."

Source: RFI #Aug18

https://rfi.my/7fQo.f

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Russian media: Taliban seniors meeting with Chinese ambassador 
 
According to the report, Afghanistan Taliban seniors meeting with Chinese ambassador in Afghanistan, discussed about local situation and safety of Chinese Embassy.  
 
The Paper News quoted from Russian TASS News Agency, spokesperson for the Taliban Political Office in Doha posted and stated, Taliban representatives met Chinese ambassador in Afghanistan Wang Yu in Kabul. They discussed about the situation of Afghanistan, issues of safety of Chinese Embassy and ambassadors, Chinese humanitarian assistance and bilateral relations.  
 
The spokesperson of Afghanistan Taliban indicated earlier, in which they want to keep good relationships with all countries including China and seek a friendly relation and develop economy with China.  
 
Source: Now News #Aug05  

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The #CCP and the #Taliban are bonding over the Belt and Road initiative, a Beijing-controlled infrastructure project.

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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 from Afghanistan.

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 from Afghanistan.

Source: NY Times #Aug07

https://nyti.ms/38Rfalb

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The #CCP has eagerly exploited the crisis to discredit the U.S.

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clearly we have a different definition of "terrorist".. *Cues Taliban-China relationship*

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Taliban calls China its “most important partner”, vows support for Belt and Road

The Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid has called China the group’s “most important partner” in an interview with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica. This was the first time a Taliban representative openly declares China to be its most significant ally.

In the interview, Mujahid said China is ready to invest in and rebuild Afghanistan and called it an “extraordinary opportunity”. The spokesperson also said the Taliban is following the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative closely. Noting Afghanistan’s rich copper reserves, he said the country will be modernized, “thanks to China”.

“China is our pass to markets all over the world.”

Mujahid’s comments came before the Taliban announced a new government in Afghanistan. Previously named a contender for the head of the administration, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, chief of the Taliban’s political commission and leader of the group’s recent delegation to Beijing, was appointed the acting first deputy prime minister.

Source: Stand News #Sep03

https://bit.ly/39e5tx9

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Taiwan says China wants to 'emulate' the Taliban

Taiwan's foreign minister accused China on Saturday of wanting to "emulate" the Taliban, saying the island that Beijing claims as sovereign Chinese territory did not wish to be subject to communism or crimes against humanity.

The rapid fall of the U.S.-backed Afghan government has sparked heated debate in Taiwan about whether they could suffer the same fate to a Chinese invasion, while state media in China has said Kabul's fate showed Taiwan it cannot trust Washington.

Source: Reuters #Aug21

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-taiwan-china-idUSKBN2FM04N

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