{"id":15088,"date":"2026-06-13T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/13\/taliban-afghan-representative-talks-china-wakhan-corridor-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:12:21","slug":"taliban-afghan-representative-talks-china-wakhan-corridor-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/13\/taliban-afghan-representative-talks-china-wakhan-corridor-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban&#8217;s Afghan Representative Holds Talks with Chinese Official on Wakhan Corridor Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run Afghan Embassy in China has announced that Maulvi Bilal Karimi, the Taliban-appointed representative in Beijing, met with Fu Xiaoqing, head of the CICIR Research Center, to discuss expanding scientific, trade, and regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the released report, the meeting focused on developing trade corridors, particularly the Wakhan Corridor, with both sides emphasizing strengthening bilateral relations and cooperation. The Wakhan Corridor, a narrow passage between Afghanistan and China, holds significant economic and transit importance and has always been central to regional connectivity discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Embassy added that research and scientific collaborations were also key topics during the session, with both parties expressing the desire to broaden interactions in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban administration talks about expanding regional cooperation, it remains unrecognized by many countries. However, China is among the few nations that have maintained working relations with the Taliban administration, continuing political and economic contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Afghan envoy in China discusses scientific, trade, and regional cooperation including the key Wakhan Corridor with Chinese research center head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}