China Promised To Keep Afghan Embassy, Increase Humanitarian Aid: Taliban

Abdul Salam Hanafi, a member of the Taliban's political office in Doha, "held a phone conversation with the Deputy Foreign Minister of China," the spokesman tweeted.

A Taliban spokesman said Friday that China has promised to keep its embassy in Afghanistan open and to increase humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged country. Abdul Salam Hanafi, a member of the Taliban's political office in Doha, Qatar, "held a phone conversation with Wu Jianghao, Deputy Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China," spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted. "The Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister said that they would maintain their embassy in Kabul, adding our relations would beef up as compared to the past... China will also continue and increase its humanitarian assistance especially for treatment of covid-19," he wrote.