China can contribute to Afghan growth: Taliban spokesman

China has performed a constructive function in selling peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan and is welcome to contribute to the rebuilding of the nation, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen informed Chinese state media.
Taliban militants seized management over the weekend in an upheaval that despatched hundreds of civilians and Afghan army allies fleeing for security. Many concern a return to the austere interpretation of Islamic legislation imposed throughout the earlier Taliban rule that ended 20 years in the past.
In coping with the Taliban, an more and more highly effective China could possibly leverage the truth that not like Russia and the United States, it has not fought in Afghanistan.

“China is a big country with a huge economy and capacity – I think they can play a very big role in the rebuilding, rehabilitation, reconstruction of Afghanistan,” Shaheen informed CGTN tv in an interview late on Thursday.

During Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s assembly with a Taliban delegation within the northern Chinese port metropolis of Tianjin final month, he stated he hoped Afghanistan might undertake a average Islamist coverage.
China has cited spiritual extremism as a destabilizing drive in its western Xinjiang area and has lengthy nervous that Taliban-controlled territory can be used to harbour separatist forces.