Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul today, Thursday, according to what a Taliban official announced, a week before Beijing hosts a conference of Afghanistan's neighbors to discuss ways to help it after the movement's seizure of power.
The official in the Taliban government, Ahmed Yasser, wrote in a tweet on Twitter that "the Chinese Foreign Minister arrived in Kabul to meet officials in the Islamic Emirate."
The Chinese minister arrived in Kabul from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where he participated in a two-day meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
China shares with Afghanistan a small part of its border, extending 76 kilometers at a very high altitude, but Beijing has long feared that its neighbor would become a base for separatists and Islamists of the Uyghur nationalism.
Before the Taliban seized power on August 15, Beijing sought to maintain its ties with the movement when US and NATO forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan.