Beijing Says Sino-US Cooperation on Afghanistan Conditional on Washington's ‘Attitude Toward China'

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Aug. 29 said Washington's "Attitude toward China" would decide how the two countries would work together on Afghanistan, during a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

Yi said the U.S. attitude would be measured by its actions: Stop "Smearing and attacking" Beijing and stop "Undermining" China's sovereignty.

Beijing handed the lists and three demands to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, when she traveled to China in late July to meet with Yi and his deputy Xie Feng.

Many Western governments, including the United States, have called out China for its human rights violations in the three regions, particularly over the detention of over a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

The communist regime has turned Sherman's China visit-as well as the March meeting in Alaska when Yi and China's foreign policy official Yang Jiechi dressed down Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan-into a propaganda coup.

It remains to be seen how much China would actually benefit from a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

"I'm not sure that China is actually going to benefit because Beijing now has to do something that it's never done before, which is to manage a very difficult security situation outside his borders," said Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," during a recent EpochTV webinar.

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