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Originally Posted by Oberon
Although there is, perhaps, a small element of truth in it because it's likely that some of the Mujahideen wound up in the Taliban. The situation in Afghanistan after the Soviet pullout got rather confusing and bloody.
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Yep. Folks love to label everything into neat little categories for their own purposes, usually having nothing to do with the reality for those being defined. As you say the real situation was rather less clear.
I find it not surprising at all that the Chinese would covertly support the Taliban. China has always attempted to control the countries on it's borders, and it would at least be a way of hedging their bet if the Taliban were to return to power.