China mocks US over Afghanistan — RT World Information
Overseas ministry spokesman contrasted Beijing’s assist to quake-stricken nation with hasty US retreat
The identical sort of planes the US used for its chaotic withdrawal from war-torn Afghanistan, China is now deploying to ship provides for rebuilding the nation’s province tormented by a significant earthquake, a spokesman of the overseas ministry in Beijing identified on Twitter on Friday.
“Related transport planes, totally different missions in Afghanistan,” Zhao Lijian tweeted. He accompanied that with a screenshot captioned in English: “US planes took folks out after destruction, Chinese language planes introduced aid provides in for reconstruction.”
One of many pictures is the enduring picture of the US C-17 Globemaster III making an attempt to take off from Kabul in August 2021, surrounded by determined Afghans making an attempt to cling on. On the underside is a photograph of the Chinese language Xian Y-20 transport, delivering pallets of assist final week.
Zhao’s nonetheless seems much like a video circulating in China and contrasting the aid effort with the US scramble to go away Afghanistan in August 2021, because the Taliban took energy in Kabul and the US-backed authorities melted away.
Lower than 1 12 months aside at Kabul Airport: China Folks’s Liberation Military flying earthquake assist to Afghanistan vs US navy withdrawal pic.twitter.com/5ODH67oitd
— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) June 29, 2022
Two of Afghanistan’s provinces on the border with Pakistan, Khost and Paktika, had been struck by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on June 22. Preliminary reviews put the loss of life toll at 700, with twice that many injured.
China has responded to the Afghanistan quake by asserting 50 million yuan ($7.5 million) value of assist. The movies and photographs present the Folks’s Liberation Military Air Drive airlifting a number of the assist into the Kabul airport.
The US Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) stated it had despatched $55 million value of assist, together with emergency provides, to Afghanistan quake victims. The help needed to be routed via accomplice organizations such because the IOM, as Washington doesn’t acknowledge the Taliban authorities, nevertheless.
Friday’s needling by Zhao will not be the primary time the Chinese language overseas ministry’s spokesman has mocked the US over Afghanistan. In September final 12 months, a couple of week after the final US troops left the nation, he posted a video of the Taliban taking part in round within the wreckage of an American-made airplane, captioned “graveyard of empires.”
