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Minority report: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has repeatedly condemned the persecution faced by Uighur Muslims in China. Reuters
Yogesh Gupta
Former Ambassador
SPEAKING on July 7 at a virtual ceremony marking 70 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the two countries needed to augment cooperation to “contain security risks in Afghanistan through the expansion of both international and regional terrorism” to defend regional stability. He asked Pakistan to push for trilateral cooperation by increasing Afghanistan’s involvement in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), an important part of China’s Belt and Road initiative.