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The new Afghan situation creates a factor of instability at the gates of China

2021-08-31T17:51:12.324Z


DECRYPTION - Propaganda highlights the American debacle in Kabul, but the return of the Taliban poses serious challenges for the Chinese power, which fears an outbreak of jihadist attacks against its interests in Pakistan.


"Total failure"

, rejoices the

Global Times

. In Beijing, the official press is reveling in the American debacle in Afghanistan.

"The United States sows destruction, not construction,"

said Hua Chunying, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The media detail the chaos of the Western evacuation and the failures of the US military, accused of blindly killing civilians. This

"terribly embarrassing"

withdrawal is

expected to lead to a bitter

"defeat"

for Joe Biden and Democrats in the 2022 midterm election, predicts the

Global Times

, affiliated with PC.

Sunday, during an uncompromising telephone conversation, the head of diplomacy Wang Yi lectured his American counterpart, Antony Blinken, demanding

"concrete acts" in the

face of terrorism and denouncing a

"hasty"

departure

.

To read also

Renaud Girard: "In Afghanistan, the cold realism of the Chinese"

China struggles to hide its satisfaction at the pitiful US retreat, which sounds like a validation of the Xi Jinping-era prophecy of the West's decline

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Source: lefigaro

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