China Seeks to Keep Afghan Jihadis in Afghanistan

An unleashed Taliban and its Islamic allies could spell trouble

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

Although the US withdrawal from Afghanistan can’t be anything but good news for China, the withdrawal comes with caveats that put Beijing in a real quandary, one that it is struggling to manage through a host of initiatives targeting both Kabul and the Taliban.

China, one of the few countries in the region able to develop close rela…