India, Sept. 8 -- As the international affairs spotlight oscillates between the wildings of President Donald Trump's administration and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, a recent visit by China's foreign minister Wang Yi to Kabul has gone under the radar for both its relevance and a conundrum that Xi Jinping's Beijing has found itself in.

The Chinese minister landed in Kabul for the first time since 2022 for the sixth China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers' Dialogue on August 20. This mechanism between the three countries was resumed to largely promote interests of the duopoly of China and Pakistan in Afghanistan following the chaotic US military withdrawal in August 2021 following the closure of a...