By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews, June 27, 2023 at 10:52 PMThe Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) said that the Islamic Emirate and China are interested in connecting via the Wakhan corridor. The spokesman for the MoIC, Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, said connecting Afghanistan across the Wakhan will increase trade with world countries and increase national revenue. “One of our dreams from the past is to connect via the Wakhan corridor with China… both…
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by Dewey Sim in SCMP, May 19, 2023*Expansion of US$60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor into Afghanistan ‘a win’ for the war-torn country, but China’s yields less certain**Observers said Beijing will be hoping to reduce instability in the region while building its influence When China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang met his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Mutaqi earlier this month, he spoke of the two nations as “traditionally friendly neighbours connected by mountains and rivers”. China would…