China's top diplomat in Afghanistan effusively praised the Taliban for bringing 'positive improvements' to the country.
“In the reports by some Western media outlets, Afghanistan seems to be on the verge of economic collapse with starving bodies everywhere. But you will see completely different scenes if you visit major cities in Afghanistan,” Zhao claimed, “Daily necessities and supplies are basically available; there is a wide variety of food and vegetables, and the supply of electricity, communication, and fuel is also stable, with social order being well-maintained.
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction , an American watchdog agency, accused the Taliban in its August“[I]t is no longer a question of whether the Taliban are diverting assistance from our programs to help the Afghan people, but rather how much they are diverting,” The SIGAR, John Sopko, wrote in the introductory letter to the report.
File/Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, poses for photos with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Afghan Taliban’s caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 24, 2022. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, March 31, 2022 issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders.
Zhao celebrated the Taliban conquest and committed China to helping “the Afghan people [usher] in an opportunity to truly control their own destiny.” The Taliban have not held and election in two years and have no public plans to do so; the Afghan people played no role in its return to power and have no voice in the radical Islamist dictatorship.
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