MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.nettovideos@hexbear.net•Chinese (tourist?) visits the Taliban, unsurprisingly they can be kind to foreigners who aren't there to murder and SA their familiesEnglish
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1 month agoThe Taliban and China have reasonably good working relationships for things like infrastructure planning. The problem is that often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks. Same with Chinese investment in Pakistan too before the coup.
The first one that comes to mind is the Kabul hotel attack in 2022.
There was a pretty serious uptick in attacks on China-related targets like power projects in Pakistan too before the coup.
But ISIS released a video statement officially making China a target and promising the ramped up attacks back in 2017, and there was already crossover with ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement - the name China gives a broader network of terror groups in the region, often focusing on China and Xinjiang) and TIP (Turkestan Islamic Party) the ‘political’ face of the groups who are designated a terrorist group by everyone except America, allegedly because it makes it easier for them to use TIP to funnel money and wrapons to the overlapping ISIS-K groups.