There are surprising encounters.
On July 28, 2021, in Tianjin (a city 50 kilometers southeast of Beijing, towards the Yellow Sea), Wang Yi, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, solemnly received, with official photo taken, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, number two in the Afghan Taliban.
In the general conduct of its diplomacy, China combats interference in the internal affairs of other countries and does not like officially receiving rebels.
But there can be exceptions.
Here, that China and Afghanistan share a border of 76 kilometers, and that the Taliban progress spectacularly in the territorial reconquest of their country justifies a small departure from the rule.
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Wang and Baradar may be neighbors, but between them is yin and yang.
One cannot imagine more antinomic figures: on the one hand, the Communist minister in a full jacket of a government which is hunting down in Xinjiang the bearded Uighurs who are too Islamic to his
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