China Trying To Take Control by providing emergency financial aid, food and 3 million vaccines to Afghanistan
China along with five other neighbours of Afghanistan has started handling new challenges caused by the US’ hasty pullout from Afghanistan and the latest situation in the country. Very cleverly they have not asked India for help and thus in the long run this will harm the Afghan cause.
As it is because of the terrorists past if all the Afghan ministers, India has gone in for a wait and watch policy ax the future of Afghanistan is still full of uncertainties and the government established by the Taliban can only be called as interim.
China has cleverly announced an emergency financial and other aids including foods, medicines and COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday after the Afghan Taliban announced key members of its new interim government.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the Afghan issue among the Neighboring Countries of Afghanistan. Wang said to the foreign ministers from Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan that all Afghanistan’s neighbors can cooperate in fields including helping Afghanistan to strengthen COVID-19 epidemic prevention, keeping border ports open, strengthening management and control on refugees and providing humanitarian aid. He also talked of deepening counterterrorism cooperation and conducting anti-drug operations. How the he’ll this will be possible with Pakistan as part and parcel of the process along with the Terrorist Government of Afghanistan.
Wang announced that China will provide 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Afghanistan, as well as emergency humanitarian aid worth 200 million yuan ($31 million) including food, medicines and other materials for winter.
Wang urged the Taliban to take concrete actions to contain and strike terrorists, and called on all parties to strengthen intelligence sharing and border control to arrest and eliminate terrorist groups that flee Afghanistan.
Wang also stressed that the US and its allies should take full obligation to provide economic and humanitarian aids to the Afghan people because they are the creators of the problems in Afghanistan.
As per Chinese analysts, China will keep calm and pay close attention to the Taliban’s acts in the next steps and will not recognize the interim government immediately. It may be noted that among the ministers in the interim government, many are still on the UN sanctions list. What China can do now is maintain necessary contacts with the Taliban in the fields of normal economic activities and people-to-people exchanges.
According to an Aljazeera report on Monday, an anonymous representative of the Taliban said “We have sent invitations to Turkey, China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar to take part in the [ceremony] of announcing [the composition of the new Afghan] government.”
Senior Taliban officials and spokespersons have frequently mentioned China in media interviews as they want to stress China is the country that could provide significant economic support, and to use the ongoing China-US tensions to hint or pressure the West that if they don’t build ties with the Taliban pragmatically, China could play a bigger role in the county.
“China might send representatives to attend the ceremony held by the Taliban to announce its new government but will not recognize it so soon. The Taliban needs to do more to prove that it has cut off ties with terrorist groups, and to show inclusiveness by including more non-Taliban political figures, such as some leaders in the previous government like Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah,” said the analyst.
