ETIM and the Threat to China’s BRI and CPEC 5 According to Jason Li of The Stimson Center, “In China’s calculation, the planned extension of the $61 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan could be an essential solution to create a stable and terrorist-free Afghanistan in the long term.” 6 Still, relations between the sides hinge on China’s assessment of the Taliban’s commitment to taking action against jihadist groups like the ETIM inside Afghanistan. 4 In September 2019, the three governments of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan even agreed to officially extend CPEC into Afghanistan, with plans to build a highway between Kabul and Peshawar. However, China has since pledged 200 million yuan ($31m, £22m) worth of aid to Afghanistan, including food supplies and coronavirus vaccines. 3 China might have been reassured had the Taliban cracked down on ETIM members rather than leave it to Uyghur jihadists to leave the country on their own.Ĭhina’s growing concerns with jihadist groups in its neighbourhood notwithstanding, it welcomed Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August this year by calling it “an end to anarchy”, albeit it has not yet officially recognised Taliban’s government.
2Ĭhina has reiterated such demands regardless of Taliban’s repeated assurances, such as the one given in September this year by the latter’s spokesperson Suhail Shaheen to the Chinese English daily Global Times that many ETIM members have already left Afghanistan after the Taliban leadership had urged them to migrate. 1 In October 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the acting Taliban Deputy Prime Minister, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, that Beijing expects Kabul to “take effective measures to resolutely crack down on them (c.f.
In recent months, China has urged the Taliban government to make a “clean break” with the UN-designated terrorist organisation, East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN AND UN.Memorandum of Association: Rules and Regulations.
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