{"id":34548,"date":"2021-07-30T02:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/chinas-talks-with-taliban-could-be-a-positive-thing-us-says"},"modified":"2021-07-30T02:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:04:28","slug":"chinas-talks-with-taliban-could-be-a-positive-thing-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34548","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s talks with Taliban could be a positive thing, US says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation from militants meets Chinese foreign minister as Beijing seeks to extend influence in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said that Beijing\u2019s interest in Afghanistan could be a \u201cpositive thing\u201d, after China gave a warm and very public welcome to a senior Taliban delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Nine officials from the militant group, which is eager for political recognition to bolster the impact of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/afghanistan-stunned-by-scale-and-speed-of-security-forces-collapse\">military victories across much of Afghanistan<\/a>, met China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in the coastal city of Tianjin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/chinas-talks-with-taliban-could-be-a-positive-thing-us-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation from militants meets Chinese foreign minister as Beijing seeks to extend influence in AfghanistanThe US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said that Beijing\u2019s interest in Afghanistan could be a \u201cpositive thing\u201d, after China gave a warm an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2003,621,50,61,44,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-antony-blinken","category-ashraf-ghani","category-china","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548\/revisions\/34557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}