Afghanistan a living example of US belligerence: China
China says Afghanistan is a living example of what the United States’ belligerence creates; the nation still suffers from the impact of two decades of war, which reduced the country to rubble and ruined the future of an entire generation.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday what was going on in Afghanistan was a living proof of the failure of Washington’s program of “democratic transformation.”
Wang said the two-decade occupation of Afghanistan “has reduced the country to rubble, ruined the future of an entire generation of Afghans, killed 174,000 people including more than 30,000 civilians, and made tens of millions refugees.”
"The US must take responsibility for all of this."
The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 following the September 11, 2001 attacks, despite the fact that no Afghan national was involved in the attacks. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans died in the US war of aggression on Afghanistan.
US forces occupied Afghanistan for about two decades on the pretext of fighting the Taliban. But as the US forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban stormed into the capital Kabul, which had been weakened by continued foreign occupation.
The country has since been in turmoil. The United States and its allies have largely suspended their financial assistance to Afghanistan.
The administration of US President Joe Biden has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank since the withdrawal of its occupation forces.
"Millions of Afghans are struggling on the verge of death," Wang said. "About three million Afghan children are too poor to go to school. And 18.9 million people face acute food shortage. The US must take responsibility for all of this."
"The US has failed in Afghanistan, but it has yet to abandon its policy of interference," Wang said. "Even though the US troops have left, Afghanistan is yet to emerge from the long shadow of the invasion."
The Chinese diplomat urged the international community to “be highly vigilant, jointly reject the US’s recklessness of creating chaos and turbulence in the name of democracy and human rights, and prevent another tragedy of Afghanistan in our world.”
Under pressure from Washington, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have also suspended activities in Afghanistan, withholding aid as well as $340 million in new reserves issued by the IMF.
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