{"id":21662,"date":"2026-09-12T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/china-ambassador-kabul-farewell-meeting-muttaqi-relations\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:40:14","slug":"china-ambassador-kabul-farewell-meeting-muttaqi-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/china-ambassador-kabul-farewell-meeting-muttaqi-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Ambassador in Kabul Backs Expanded Ties in Farewell Meeting With Muttaqi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run Foreign Ministry said Zhao Xing, China\u2019s ambassador in Kabul, discussed bilateral relations in a farewell meeting with acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s statement, Muttaqi described Afghanistan\u2019s relations with China as \u201chistorical and positive\u201d and expressed appreciation for the Chinese ambassador\u2019s mission in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao Xing also described relations between the two countries as friendly and voiced hope that ties between Kabul and Beijing would expand further in various fields, the Taliban administration\u2019s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>China is among the few countries that have maintained diplomatic contact and engagement with Kabul since the Taliban returned to power, and its embassy in Kabul has continued to operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s ambassador in Kabul met Amir Khan Muttaqi in a farewell visit and called for further expansion of ties between Kabul and Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662","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=21662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}