Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Chinese Army, Senior General Fang Fenghui led the country’s military delegation to visit Afghanistan.

Chinese press at the end of February 2016 said that during a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, General Fang Fenghui pledged that China would actively implement the important consensus reached between the leaders of the two countries, not

Chief of General Staff Phong Phong Huy also discussed with the Afghan side a plan to establish an anti-terrorism alliance between the four countries of China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and the President of Afghanistan approved this plan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.

Meanwhile, the US Wall Street Journal on March 10 quoted a statement from the Afghan Ministry of Defense saying that China proposed expanding military aid to the Afghan army.

The Chinese Army’s high-level visit to Afghanistan this time is rare.

However, the deteriorating security situation and the rise of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) pushed China to play a more active role in Afghanistan.

Promoting cooperation with Afghanistan is China’s next step to expand its influence in the Middle East.

Beijing’s presence in the Middle East situation has been mentioned a lot since the case of Chinese citizen Fan Jinghui being executed by IS in November 2015.

In early 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping spent his first overseas trip, the most important of the year, to visit three Middle Eastern powers: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.

It is worth noting that the trip took place right after international sanctions against Iran were lifted.

Dorian Malovic, an expert on China and head of the Asia department of La Croix, assessed that China has long persisted in its non-alignment policy, but is now looking for ways to get involved in the security environment in the Middle East to increase growth.

At each stop, Mr. Xi Jinping not only helps create more opportunities for trade and investment cooperation, but also contributes to promoting China’s foreign policy with many new benefits and approaches.

Regarding the peace process in the Middle East, Romain Brunet, Asia analyst for France 24, said that China has taken careful and smart steps.

But Chinese diplomacy began to be more active. Since 2014, for the first time in 23 years, the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Iraq.

Beijing believes that the military actions of the US and the West in the Middle East will make the situation more complicated and unstable.

This reality forces China to consider many options to increase its involvement in the Middle East security environment and neutralize the risk of remote threats.

According to An Nhien (Summary)

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