US military withdrawal from Afghanistan might improve China’s security, analysts say

Published Apr 04 2021 at 10:00 AM GMT

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The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan may create uncertainty in neighbouring Xinjiang, but might improve China’s security environment in the longer run, analysts have said.
At Tuesday’s Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a video speech that China “will continue to do its best” in Afghanistan’s peace and reconciliation process.
His remarks came at a crossroads of the Afghan peace process.