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China Strengthens Ties with Taliban by Signing Economic Deal
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Source: International Herald Tribune
Published: 9-13-01 Author: John Pomfret
Posted on 09/13/2001 06:42:21 PDT by SEA
China Strengthens Ties With Taleban by Signing Economic Deal John Pomfret
Washington Post Service Thursday, September 13, 2001 BEIJING In a sign of
Beijing's increasingly close ties with the Taleban regime in Afghanistan,
China has signed a memorandum of understanding for economic and technical
cooperation with Kabul, press reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan said. .
The agreement was reported Tuesday, the same day terrorists hijacked four
planes in the United States and drove them into the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon. A Chinese delegation signed the deal in Kabul with the
Taleban's minister of mining, Mullah Mohammed Ishaq, the news reports said. .
China's greement with the Taleban is the most substantial part of a series of
contacts that Beijing has had with Afghanistan over the last two years. Of
all non-Muslim
countries, Beijing now has the best relationship with the isolated regime in
Kabul in the world, a senior Western diplomat said. .
While Beijing is not believed to be violating any United Nations-imposed
sanctions in its dealings with the Taleban, the contacts have disturbed
high-ranking officials from the West and some of China's central Asian
neighbors. Several senior officials in
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, in recent interviews, said they worried that
Beijing was trying to curry favor with Kabul at the same time it made a
public show of opposing terrorism which seemed to be supported by
Afghanistan. . China has helped form the Shanghai Cooperative Organization
that joins Russia and three central Asian nations in a loose grouping. One of
its main purposes is to combat cross-border terrorism and it is specifically
aimed at Afghanistan. . At the same time, China is uietly dealing with the
Taleban as part of an effort to convince its officials to close Afghan-based
camps that are used to train Muslim separatists from China's restive Xinjiang
region. Those separatists on occasion re-enter China and launch attacks on
China's security services or on civilian targets. . As part of a weetener,
Asian diplomats say, China has dangled the prospect of providing Afghanistan
with much needed help on its infrastructure and economic development. . In
2000, two Chinese telecommunications firms, Huawei Technologies and ZTE,
signed contracts to provide limited phone service for Kabul and Kandahar,
near where the suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is supposedly based,
regional press reports and diplomatic sources said. Asian and Western
diplomats earlier this year identified Huawei as one Chinese firm that was
involved in helping Iraq bolster its air defenses by selling it
communications equipment. . Chinese engineers have also held negotiations
with Taleban officials about renovating an American-built power station,
according to an Asian diplomat. Meanwhile, a Taleban-led business delegation
came to Beijing earlier this year. . In ddition, political contacts between
China and the Taleban government have grown. In November 2000, a delegation
from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, an
influential think-tank run by the Ministry of State Security, visited Kabul
and Kandahar. China's ambassador to Pakistan has also made at least one
recent trip to Kabul and met with Taleban officials in Pakistan's capital
Islamabad, Asian diplomatic sources said. . "China has got to make a decision
and a decisive one on Afghanistan," said one senior diplomat. "It can play
both sides against the middle and anger the West and other countries, or it
can really work multilaterally to resolve the terrorism problem. Who knows
which course it will take."
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