The communist regime in China has created a new alliance to challenge the United States and Western democracy, said Johnnie Moore, a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commissioner. “They’re creating a new axis of collaborators against the Western democratic order,” said Moore, referring to the alliance of China, Pakistan, and the Taliban, in a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program. He called the alliance a “geopolitical catastrophe.” China has openly backed the Taliban in recent months. In June, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi, at a meeting with his counterparts from Pakistan and Afghanistan, vowed to “bring the Taliban back into the political mainstream.” A month later, Wang welcomed a visiting Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Barada. After the Taliban’s swift takeover of Kabul in mid-August, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) quickly welcomed the Taliban’s rise in the war-torn nation, though the …