Since 2021, no governments in the world have recognised the Taliban government since it grabbed power with force. Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi has said the Taliban administration wants to join China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. It will send a technical team to China for talks, he added.
Since 2021, no governments in the world have recognised the Taliban government after it grabbed power with force. China, however, has been attempting to engage with the administration. Last month, it became the first country to appoint an ambassador to Kabul.
Azizi told Reuters that they had requested China to allow Afghanistan to be a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Belt and Road Initiative. He also said the two sides were holding technical discussions. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is the flagship section of the Belt and Road Initiative.
In order to better understand the issues against Afghanistan’s joining the initiative, the Taliban administration will send a technical team to China, he added.
Afghanistan, which had been reeling with successive wars over decades, has seen relative peace since Taliban took over.
