China and the Taliban are friends in need of each other

Investment creeps forward amid continued security worries

Avatar
20230914 taliban china amb

Zhao Sheng, China's new ambassador to Afghanistan, shakes hands with Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund, left, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Sep. 13. (Handout via AP)

Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and author of "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire."

In a portentous marker of the second anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, officials from the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs last month tweeted a photo from a meeting with visiting executives from China's Huawei Technologies.

Sponsored Content

About Sponsored ContentThis content was commissioned by Nikkei's Global Business Bureau.