Taliban-China Deal
example · news/current events ·
retold in 8 talks
Immediately after the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, China recognized them on the condition they do not interfere with China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, a deal Žižek presents as the model for the new BRICS international of mutual non-interference in each other's atrocities.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 8
“China said, 'We recognize you, who cares about women's rights, but you leave us alone that we do in Uyghur with Muslims there what we want.'”
“China will leave them alone to do their Islamist stuff, but Taliban promised: 'You do all the anti-Muslim stuff with Uyghurs there and we don't care about that.'”
“The deal was what: you Chinese allow us in Afghanistan to do what we want to treat women the way we do but we will not mess with what you are doing with Uyghur Muslims”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
unholy alliances
×3
colonialist multiculturalism
×1
authentic multiculturalism
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Kirill I of Moscow3Werner Herzog2Olof Palme2Volodymyr Zelenskyy4Sahra Wagenknecht2Victoria Nuland1Norbert Elias1Sergey Lavrov1
alongside works
Every retelling 8
Immediately after the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, China recognized them on the condition they do not interfere with China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, a deal Žižek presents as the model for the new BRICS international of mutual non-interference in each other's atrocities., illustrating BRICS geopolitics,unholy alliances,authoritarian internationalism
After taking power, the Taliban made a pragmatic deal with China: China ignores their Islamist rule, and the Taliban ignores China's persecution of Uyghurs, illustrating a cynical form of multiculturalism., illustrating multiculturalism as oppression
When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, they made peace with China by agreeing to treat women badly in exchange for China not interfering with their treatment of Uyghur Muslims, illustrating the 'authentic multicultural' coexistence Putin supports., illustrating unholy alliances
Right after taking Afghanistan, the Taliban made peace with China: you do what you want with women there, we do what we want with Uyghurs here, the BRICS logic of mutual non-interference in barbarism., illustrating false multiculturalism (BRICS multiculturalism)
After taking Afghanistan the Taliban made a brutal pact with China: leave us alone with what we do to women, and we won't mess with what you do to the Uyghurs., illustrating authoritarian coalitions,brutal clinical neutral tolerance
After the Taliban takeover, China and the Taliban reached an implicit deal: China would not interfere with what the Taliban does to women; the Taliban would not interfere with what China does to Uyghurs, illustrating where the sovereignty/culturalism logic leads., illustrating culturalism as manipulation,decolonization rhetoric misused,sovereignty vs universalism