China’s ambassador to the Taliban, Wang Yu, announced Tuesday that the Communist Party has invested $37.4 million in the success of the jihadist terrorist government since it took power in August.
China has been one of the most ardent supporters of the Sunni jihadist Taliban’s return to power in neighboring Afghanistan, and has described the capture of Kabul in August 2021 as a “sunny day” for the world. While, like the rest of the world, China has not formally recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan – accepting it only as a “temporary” government entity – it has moved on to treating terrorists transparently, reveal Last month, the Taliban “ambassador” is stationed at the Afghan embassy in Beijing.
The Chinese Communist Party has not expressed any meaningful concern about the terrorist activities of the Taliban despite the use of the alleged threat of jihad as a pretext to commit genocide against the Muslim-majority Uyghur people in occupied East Turkestan. Although the Taliban claims to be an Islamic organization, it has also refrained from commenting on China’s genocide against Muslims on its borders.
Hong Kong based South China Morning Newspaper On Wednesday, it reported that Chinese Ambassador to the Taliban Wang Yu boasted of an investment of 250 million yuan (about $37.4 million) in the Taliban during a meeting with a senior jihadi official. Wang did not clarify whether this money includes funding for humanitarian aid in response to the June earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people, as China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, has already done. announce An investment of 250 million yuan on June 23.
“Wang said that after the change in government, China announced that it will provide 200 million yuan in emergency humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, and the supplies have been fully delivered to the country since the first delivery in September.” Morning Post deported. “China pledged another 50 million yuan in emergency humanitarian aid to the country after the powerful earthquake that hit southeast Afghanistan last month, killing more than 1,000 people, injuring nearly 2,000 and displacing tens of thousands of people.”
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The earthquake in question occurred in late June, with the most severe damage to the impoverished Pakistani border provinces of Paktika and Khost.
The Taliban’s “Deputy Minister of State for Disaster Management” Ghulam Ghaus Nasiri, who attended the event along with Wang, told reporters that about $8 million in Chinese aid will be allocated for earthquake relief, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry. Tolo News.
“The People’s Republic of China has provided more than 6000 tons of rice worth eight million dollars to the Afghan people in seven steps, and we have sent aid to 34 provinces and the distribution process is underway,” the Afghan news station quoted Al-Nasiri as saying. According to him.
Both Naciri and Wang reportedly devoted part of the press conference to condemning the United States. America was engaged in a 20-year war against the Taliban that began after the 9/11, 2001 jihadist attacks perpetrated by Al-Qaeda, a Sunni jihadist organization with close ties to the Taliban. The war ended in August after President Joe Biden violated an agreement President Donald Trump had agreed with the Taliban that would have removed US forces from the country on May 1, 2021.
Biden extended the war and claimed he would withdraw troops in September. By August 15, the Taliban, having launched a nationwide campaign to reclaim territory from the US-backed government, had reached the Kabul city line, causing former President Ashraf Ghani to flee.
While Taliban officials insisted that they wanted friendly relations with America and American foreign investment, the Chinese envoy did his best to blame America for all of Afghanistan’s current problems.
“The US military intervention in Afghanistan has caused profound disaster for the Afghan people, and their irresponsible withdrawal has created more problems for Afghanistan which is the cause of Afghanistan’s current plight,” Wang said at Tuesday’s event, according to Tolo News. “But the United States not only ignored the catastrophe the Afghan people faced, but also refused to return the assets of the Afghan people.”
The “assets” in question are those of the Afghan government that the US government – as well as international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund – has refused to grant to the Taliban as not a functioning state or the United Nations considers the Taliban the government of Afghanistan.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political leader of the Afghan Taliban, in Tianjin, China, July 28, 2021 (Photo by Li Ran/Xinhua via Getty)
Wang did not address the fact that the Biden government almost immediately appropriated 55 million dollars In humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the earthquake, much more than China contributed.
“The United States is the single largest humanitarian donor in Afghanistan, providing more than $774 million in humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan and for Afghans in the region since mid-August, including more than $573 million from USAID. [the U.S. Agency for International Development]’, noted a US government statement on June 28. The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team, stationed in the region to lead the humanitarian response in Afghanistan, continues to coordinate the US response to the earthquake, and supports US partners to ensure access to the most vulnerable aid.”
America’s contributions to helping the impoverished Afghan people, who, the United Nations warned, found themselves in an even more vulnerable situation after the Taliban seized power, have done little to prevent the jihadists from enthusiastically courting China. In August, shortly after the capture of Kabul, Taliban representatives told reporters that they were seeking a close relationship with the communist regime.
Taliban spokesman Sohail Shaheen said at the time: “We are ready to exchange views with China on how to move forward in terms of strengthening our mutual relations, bringing peace to the region and helping it in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.” “China, our neighboring country, can play a constructive and positive role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan as well as in the economic development and prosperity of the people of Afghanistan. Expected [that] China [will] play its role.”
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during the second meeting of foreign ministers of countries neighboring Afghanistan in Tehran via video conference, October 27, 2021 (Photo by Morteza Nikobazel/Noor Photo via Getty Images)
China, through its state media arms, has transparently expressed its interest in working with the Taliban to exploit Afghanistan’s rich mineral resources.
“The value of rare earth minerals in Afghanistan has been estimated to be between $1 trillion and $3 trillion in 2020,” Global Times, a propaganda outlet for the Chinese government, reported in August. US media outlet CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing the so-called “warning” of an investment analyst, that “China may “align itself with the Taliban and try to exploit rare earth minerals in Afghanistan”.
The Global Times This expectation was not challenged.
Rare earth minerals are central to some of China’s most lucrative exports, including battery parts for high-end electronics and environmental “green” technology such as electric cars.
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