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2021-07-12 Afghanistan

Taliban Welcomes China in Afghanistan, Offers Protection

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Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 never heard of the uighurs huh?

Posted by Chris 2021-07-12 00:45|| 2021-07-12 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 The welcoming of a new host.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-12 01:49|| 2021-07-12 01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 If they face the same fate as the Uighurs, I have no problem with that.

Posted by Wren 2021-07-12 02:11|| 2021-07-12 02:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Glass the place already, and about half of Pakistain.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Jones4656 2021-07-12 04:24|| 2021-07-12 04:24|| Front Page Top

#5 The pool is starting: Which will turn out to be the spider and which the fly?

Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-12 07:25|| 2021-07-12 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 The infamous 'tiger chair' which contorts prisoners' bodies... and women sterilised or raped: China's monstrous abuse of Uyghur Muslims is laid bare by author GEOFFREY CAIN who has interviewed dozens of victims

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-12 09:27|| 2021-07-12 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Consider for moment that has been China funding the taliban war against the west. Suffice it to say the taliban could care less about the Uighers.

Posted by Xyz 2021-07-12 09:31|| 2021-07-12 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 The Taliban will offer protection as long as they are paid by China. Otherwise they will attack.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-12 09:34|| 2021-07-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^They will attack anyway - poor impulse control.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-12 09:45|| 2021-07-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ They will just ask for more money. Typical extortion. And poor control over shooting their loads.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-12 10:29|| 2021-07-12 10:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Darth, wanna lay a little bet?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-12 10:36|| 2021-07-12 10:36|| Front Page Top

#12 the taliban could care less about the Uighers.

The Taliban welcomed a contingent of Uighurs to Afghanistan as Al Qaeda allies when they ruled the country, and the Uighurs remain there still — in Badakshan, listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table. They sent a group to Syria to help Al Nusra fight Assad — they keep busy in Idlib nowadays. They call themselves the Turkistan Islamic Party, and there is only a small remnant left in Xinjiang.

So the Taliban won’t be much interested in the fate of the Uighurs in China, except as an excuse, but they’re awfully fond of the ones they have locally.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-12 14:15|| 2021-07-12 14:15|| Front Page Top

#13 So the Taliban won’t be much interested in the fate of the Uighurs in China, except as an excuse, but they’re awfully fond of the ones they have locally.

I have little doubt they're interested. Not as a humanitarian matter so much as a potential addition to their territory. East Turkistan ~~Xinjiang~~, even after the territory annexed to existing Chinese provinces, is more than 2x the size of Afghanistan. We see borders as fixed. The Taliban probably doesn't. And why would they? East Turkistan was conquered at gunpoint. It's always been the land of the Mongols/Turks. The Chinese own it now, but they did not always own it and who knows what the future brings?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-07-12 19:49|| 2021-07-12 19:49|| Front Page Top

#14 I meant the Chinese will treat the taliban just like anyone else when he don't comply. Some regions are easier to hide the shit you than others.

Posted by Chris 2021-07-12 23:29|| 2021-07-12 23:29|| Front Page Top

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