The White House on April 6 suggested that countries are free to decide how they want to deal with the isolated Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Asked by the Epoch Times how the United States would approach the growing China-Taliban relationship, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby suggested that that matter was not up to the administration.
“Every country’s got to take their own view of how they’re going to relate to the Taliban,” Kirby said during a Thursday press conference.
“We don’t recognize them as an official government in Afghanistan.”
The Taliban has not been recognized as a legitimate regime by any nation, including China, but Beijing has sought to deepen economic ties with the Taliban, with an eye on Afghanistan’s estimated more than $1 trillion worth of mineral deposits….