The Chinese regime eagerly made use of President Joe Biden’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan in August 2021 to sow seeds of doubt among U.S. allies about the United States’ strategic leadership and global influence, a new Department of Defense (DoD) report has revealed.
According to the report, this ploy came in the midst of Chinese efforts to carry out an aggressively expansionist foreign policy, vying to position itself for economic domination over its Asian rivals and a possible showdown with Taiwan, the self-ruled island the communist regime claims as its own.
Propaganda Tool
The DoD’s annual report, titled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2022,” recounts that Chinese officials sharply criticized the hasty and tense U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. They pointed to the withdrawal as evidence that America is “an unreliable partner and declining power,” the report stated….