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Afghanistan's Taliban Meets Chinese Government in Beijing

Mon, 09/23/2019 - 10:53am

Afghanistan's Taliban Meets Chinese Government in Beijing by Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Rupam Jain – Reuters

A Taliban delegation met China’s special representative for Afghanistan in Beijing to discuss the group’s peace talks with the United States, a spokesman for the Islamist insurgency said.

The meeting, on Sunday, comes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour cancellation earlier this month of negotiations with the Taliban, which many had hoped would pave the way to a broader peace deal with the Afghan government and ending an 18-year war…

Reuters.