economic and humanitarian disaster and china also called on president biden to lift sanctions against the taliban. china shares a 47-mile border with afghanistan, in exchange for supporting the taliban, china wants something in return. namely eliminating what china says a uyghur terrorist group based along the border. beijing accuses that group of stoking rebellion by uyghurs who live in china. others say that is just a convenient excuse china is using to commit genocide against its own muslim population. experts have said the relationship is an opportunity for president xi to secure influence in the country that sits in a hub trade roads and empires. china is also key to stop mining afghanistan s vast deposit of copper, gas, gold, lithium, oil and uranium though thought to be worth well over a trillion dollars. as the u.s. moose out. china and its allies move. in happy to reap the benefits of a country that is both strategically place and mineral