{"id":35398,"date":"2021-08-17T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/china-will-tread-carefully-in-navigating-the-talibans-return"},"modified":"2021-08-17T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:00:01","slug":"china-will-tread-carefully-in-navigating-the-talibans-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35398","title":{"rendered":"China will tread carefully in navigating the Taliban\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Difficult to predict how China will deal with its volatile neighbour, but Uyghur issue could prove contentious <\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019s hasty departure from Afghanistan has provided much material for China\u2019s propaganda agencies to discredit Washington\u2019s foreign policy. But Beijing is also treading a careful line in navigating an increasingly uncertain security situation in one of its most volatile neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said that while Beijing will \u201ccontinue developing good-neighbourly, friendly and cooperative relations with Afghanistan\u201d, it also urges the Taliban to \u201censure that all kinds of terrorism and crimes can be curbed so that the Afghan people can stay away from war and rebuild their homeland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/china-will-tread-carefully-in-navigating-the-talibans-return\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Difficult to predict how China will deal with its volatile neighbour, but Uyghur issue could prove contentious The US\u2019s hasty departure from Afghanistan has provided much material for China\u2019s propaganda agencies to discredit Washington\u2019s fore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"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":[46,41,50,447,61,44,47,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398","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\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions\/35399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}