For Beijing, Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Creates More Problems Than Benefits, Experts Say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : However, before China could realize its goal of getting a "secured energy supply" from Iran, Beijing must realize that there are different factions and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, such as the Northern Alliance groups of the Tajik-Dari-speakers, Copley said.
44% : Gregory Copley, president of Washington-based NGO International Strategic Studies Association, explained during the webinar that Beijing wanted to import oil and gas from Iran through Afghanistan, instead of shipping them through the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
42% : "What Beijing hopes to do is to say, well, Beijing will locate the Taliban and the Pashtuns, and Iran will somehow locate or deal with the Dari-speaking Shia groups.

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