India's Afghanistan outreach offers Taliban a China alternative - Nikkei Asia

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New Delhi's outreach "doesn't mean recognition but [shows that] India is willing to give the Taliban some level of support and engage with them at a very basic level to see how far the Taliban are willing to engage with India more substantively," Pant said.

At the same time, he said that India is keeping a "low profile so as not to send a signal to the West that it [could recognize] the Taliban as a legitimate ruler of Afghanistan".

"Afghanistan is ready to actively participate in [Beijing's] Belt and Road cooperation and strengthen trade and investment cooperation with China," the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement in late March, after top diplomat Wang Yi met with Muttaqi in Kabul.

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