Explainer: Why Is China Talking To The Taliban?
· In 1999, a group of Chinese officials flew to Kabul and opened diplomatic and economic relations, with China's ambassador to Pakistan seeking a meeting with Taliban commander Mullah Omar. That meeting took place in 2000, at which Beijing pressed Omar to stop harboring ethnic Uyghur militants allegedly operating in Afghanistan with a group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
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