{"id":575090,"date":"2023-05-08T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575090"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:26:12","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-to-enter-afghanistan-in-taliban-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-to-enter-afghanistan-in-taliban-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Belt and Road initiative to enter Afghanistan in Taliban victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban agreed with China and Pakistan to extend the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan, potentially drawing in billions of dollars to fund infrastructure projects in the sanctions-hit country.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met in Islamabad on Saturday and pledged to work together on Afghanistan\u2019s reconstruction process including taking the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to the Taliban-ruled nation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two sides agreed to continue their humanitarian and economic assistance for the Afghan people and enhance development cooperation in Afghanistan, including through extension of CPEC to Afghanistan,\u201d according to a joint statement issued by Pakistan\u2019s foreign ministry following the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban agreed with China and Pakistan to extend the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan, potentially drawing in billions of dollars to fund infrastructure projects in the sanctions-hit country. Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met in Islamabad on Saturday and pledged to work together on Afghanistan\u2019s reconstruction process including taking the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to the Taliban-ruled nation. \u201cThe two sides agreed to continue their humanitarian and economic assistance for the Afghan people and enhance development cooperation in Afghanistan, including through extension of CPEC to Afghanistan,\u201d according to a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}