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    China said to have covert ties with Taliban

    By TVEUROPA  |  Posted March 5, 2010  |  Copenhagen, Denmark
     

    U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke is trying to convince China to help the United States pacify Afghanistan, but the effort has been rejected by Beijing, which views U.S. problems in Southwest Asia as benefitting its strategy of weakening America, according to U.S. sources.

    Holbrooke has tried on several occasions to win Chinese support for both civilian and military efforts in Afghanistan but the appeals have fallen on deaf years.

     

    An intelligence source said the Chinese have had long-standing ties to the Taliban dating to the late 1990s, when Beijing was constructing a fiber optic telephone system for the Taliban when they ruled in Kabul, and also several factories.

     

    The source said the Chinese are not interested in defeating the Taliban and are only concerned about the western Xinjiang province.

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