Web Desk -With the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, China has long hoped that the influence of its regional rival is diminishing in its own neighborhood.But at the same time, his fears are growing that the United States' departure could threaten to destabilize Central Asia and extend it to China's growing Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang.
Taliban's occupation of Afghanistan
The Taliban's occupation of Afghanistan has certainly created political and economic opportunities for China in the country, including increasing Afghanistan's mineral wealth.China has said it will help rebuild the country.
The Associated Press
But according to the Associated Press, stability is a prerequisite for all these benefits.The immediate consequences of the US withdrawal are nothing short of instability.
Raphael Pentocchi, a regional affairs expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London, says China could use the United States' unreliability and its failure to show that it is a better alternative.In fact, this does not seem to be the case at the moment.
Like many other countries, China is concerned about the potential threat of terrorism from Taliban-led Afghanistan.Beijing has repeatedly told the Taliban that Afghanistan should not be the land of militants who attack from Xinjiang.As Osama bin Laden used it for the 9/11 attacks.
Threat the infiltration of militancy into Pakistan
Another very close threat the infiltration of militancy into Pakistan and Central Asia.Where China has invested heavily in building alliances.
Li Wei is a retired international security expert from the China.He says the Afghan Taliban have promised to disassociate with international terrorist forces, but it is unclear how they will do so because they have not yet formally come to power.
It is also possible that the Taliban's religion-based philosophy and the Communist Party's non-religious power in China have nothing in common.However, this did not deter Chinese leaders from contacting the Taliban leadership.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
Last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted a Taliban delegation led by Taliban political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and expressed Chinese expectations for stability and called for an end to the threat of violence and terrorism.
The hasty withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has been widely criticized in the Chinese media.However, Foreign Minister Wang told US Secretary of State Anthony Blankenship that China was ready to cooperate with the United States on the Afghan issue.But at the same time, he said.It was not possible for the United States to deliberately suppress and harm China's legitimate rights and interests and to expect support and cooperation from China.
President Biden has said that the withdrawal from Afghanistan will help the United States deal with major potential threats, including China.
This week, President Biden said, "Our military strategy rivals, China and Russia, will want the United States to spend billions of dollars, resources and attention indefinitely on stabilizing Afghanistan."
Yin Gang, a Middle East researcher
Yin Gang, a Middle East researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says a stable Afghanistan is in the interests of both countries.
He says stability in Afghanistan will improve America's reputation and invite China to participate in reconstruction.
China has worked on some industrial projects in Afghanistan before, but the completion of these projects is still as far away as it was in the presence of the United States twenty years ago.
A consortium of Chinese companies led by China Metallurgical Group Corporation has invested 3 billion in Miss Ink.Working on the world's largest copper deposit in Afghanistan.As well as power plants, railways and other infrastructure. The plan was put forward, but years later it could not be launched, largely because of insurgent activity in Logar Province.
China has also invested heavily in Pakistan.He hopes it will expand China's Belt and Road Initiative and help improve Chinese trade routes abroad.But Afghanistan is far from being a link in the chain.
Henry Story, a political analyst in Melbourne, Australia, says a resurgence of terrorism in Afghanistan could hurt China's broader economic interests in Pakistan and Central Asia.
Henry added that China does not want to repeat the mistakes of the United States, nor with issues like Taiwan.He is reluctant to have a military presence in Afghanistan because he wants to remove it.
Chinese scholars reiterate the government's position that no matter what the situation.China will not involve itself in Afghanistan's internal affairs.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhou Lijun said in a briefing this week that China would provide aid to Afghanistan within its means.
However, the Chinese media is portraying the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as a defeat for Washington and a victory for Beijing.However, Mia Novens, an expert on Chinese affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says this reflects a "misleading sense of confidence." And for the time being, China will continue to pursue a "watch and wait" policy for Afghanistan.
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