China along with Pakistan and Russia maintained its embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 following the withdrawal of American troops from the war-ravaged country.
China is going to play them like a fiddle, they'll basically own that country within 20 years. The Taliban in no way is sophisticated enough to deal with this.
I mean, it's either us or the chinese, so I highly suspect they care much, as if they even have much of a choice. And we're clearly not getting the contract after the last two decades of presence we've had there.