Hey, Chinese diplomatic “wolf warriors,” I know we haven’t always seen eye to eye, but I’m going to be the bigger man and give you some free advice: those guys in the Taliban aren’t so trustworthy after all.

China has started to lean on Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to prevent cross-border attacks on Chinese personnel and interests in neighbouring Pakistan, according to two well-placed sources in Islamabad.
Chinese diplomats in Islamabad and Kabul were forced into action by Pakistan’s failure to prevent a surge in such cross-border terrorist attacks from Afghanistan, as well as from Iran, they said.

The Chinese diplomats are “searching for alternative ways” of persuading Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to rein in the thousands of Pakistani Taliban militants it granted safe havens to after seizing power in 2021, according to a source in Islamabad who sought anonymity because of political sensitivities.

Wait, you guys are saying the Taliban made promises they couldn’t keep? They said they would keep the peace, and instead the same old terrorist violence has just moved on to different foreigners? Inconceivable! 

Chinese diplomats based in Islamabad have told influential Pakistanis that they felt “back-stabbed” by the Afghan Taliban government for refusing to restrain the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) faction that Islamabad holds responsible for a vehicular suicide bombing attack in March, which claimed the lives of five Chinese nationals working in northern Pakistan, along with their Pakistani bus driver.

Stabbed in the back, huh? See, with our two-decade commitment to attempt to build something decent in Afghanistan, they always stabbed us from the front.

I’m just going to toss this out there, but maybe Afghanistan has so many militant factions, terrorist groups, warlords and warring tribes that nobody can operate their mineral-extraction operations out there safely. When I was in Transnistria, in the capital of Tiraspol, there’s a memorial to the Soviet Union soldiers killed in Afghanistan. That place ends up biting every country that sets foot in it.