Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The meeting comes after U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s eleventh-hour cancellation earlier this month of the negotiations between his country and the Taliban, which many had hoped would pave the way to a broader peace deal with the Afghan government and ending a 17-year war.<\/p>\n The Taliban\u2019s nine-member delegation traveled to Beijing and met Deng Xijun, China\u2019s special representative for Afghanistan, said Suhail Shaheen, the Afghan group\u2019s spokesman in Qatar, on his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n Qatar was where the Taliban and the United States held peace talks over the past year.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Chinese special representative said the U.S.-Taliban deal is a good framework for the peaceful solution of the Afghan issue and they support it,\u201d Shaheen wrote.<\/p>\n Mullah Baradar, the Taliban delegation\u2019s leader, said they had held a dialogue and reached a \u201ccomprehensive deal\u201d, Shaheen tweeted.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, if the U.S. president cannot stay committed to his words and breaks his promise, then he is responsible for any kind of distraction and bloodshed in Afghanistan,\u201d Baradar said, according to Shaheen.<\/p>\n China\u2019s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to an e-mail requesting comment, sent outside its usual operating hours. Chinese officials in Kabul also did not immediately respond to a messaged request for comment.<\/p>\n Afghanistan will this coming week hold its fourth presidential elections since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban from power in 2001.<\/p>\n Those elections have gained importance since the collapse of the peace talks, as the negotiations could have led to the creation of an interim government, now a more distant prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Taliban delegation met China\u2019s special representative for Afghanistan in Beijing on Sunday to discuss the group\u2019s peace talks with the United States, a spokesman for the Islamist insurgency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[2,8,7],"tags":[226,124,32],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-economic","category-politics","tag-afghanistan-war","tag-china","tag-taliban"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n