The Chinese regime’s warm portrayal of the Taliban, whitewashing its violent history and repression of women, has been met with backlash domestically. As the Taliban quickly seized power in Afghanistan this past week, stunning U.S. forces who were due to withdraw by month’s end, Chinese officials and state-run media have embraced the militant group’s return to rule, while seizing the crisis to excoriate the United States. Chinese foreign ministry spokespersons, in the past days, have called the Taliban “the will and choice of the Afghan people,” and said the regime would be “more clear-headed and rational than it was in power last time.”   State media also went into overdrive pushing propaganda supportive of the Taliban’s rise. But its efforts were not all successful. People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, on Monday posted a brief video explaining the history of the Taliban without mentioning its ties to terrorism. …