China does another pro g*mer move on the west: Normalizes ties with Taliban

Impact:

20 years from now you would have a Taliban government that is a legitimate part of the Eastern world mentioning in their history books how the West tried to put them down but got beaten instead.

That's a legitimate blow to Western propaganda and displays of strength.

I don't think Taliban is a morally great government, but it is impressive how any place in the world where there is an anti-west group, China has its hands all in.

Afghanistan might end up being one of the actual examples of Chinese funding developing a very backwards region of the world.

Currently China also has continued to fund Sri Lanka and assist them in keeping afloat.

They have a strong economic network developing across Mongolia and Russia, with the Russian president coming in to form stronger bonds with China right now.

The current move to stabilize relations with Afghanistan also gives China the opportunity to build up a strong footing in its western sphere, thus expanding its geopolitical influence to more widespread areas than anybody else in the western sphere ever managed to do previously.

That is to say, China has become versatile in its economic and geopolitical dealings.

Another advantage that China has is that it limits its control of global events to its own geographical sphere, which makes it harder to push it into a wasteful conflict on the other side of the planet.

With an ever weakening US ( in comparative strength ), this is very beneficial.

Long term impact:

If China is able to develop Afghanistan it would have done something that the west failed to do. A display of its capabilities right there.

It would also open up China to further geographical expansion as it continues to stabilize the regions around itself.