The border China shares with Afghanistan is less than 50 miles long—a length that belies its strategic importance. Beijing has long sought to control the Wakhan corridor, claiming Uighur secessionists could use the area to stage attacks in Xinjiang. Weeks before the People’s Republic of China became the first nation to say it would cooperate with a Taliban government, China’s foreign minister asked the Taliban to crack down on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (a group that, contrary to Beijing’s position, is unlikely to pose any real threat, if it even exists).
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