After the Taliban took over Kabul on Aug. 15, both the Chinese regime and the Taliban have said that they look forward to friendship with each other. The Chinese however have come short of recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate rulers, whereas the Taliban have said that China can contribute to Afghanistan’s development. While reports…
Anti-Taliban Forces Say They’ve Taken 3 Districts in Afghanistan’s North
Forces holding out against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan say they have taken three districts close to the Panjshir valley where remnants of government forces and other militia groups have gathered. Defense Minister General Bismillah Mohammadi, who has vowed to resist the Taliban, said in a Twitter post that the districts of Deh Saleh, Bano,…
UK Says Russia, China Needed for ‘Moderating Influence’ Over Taliban
Britain would have to turn to Russia and China to exercise a “moderating influence” over the Taliban, despite a mistrust between the UK and those governments, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said. “We’re going to have to bring in countries with a potentially moderating influence like Russia and China, however uncomfortable that is,” Raab told The…
What’s the Key US Error in Afghanistan Now and in History? Feat. US Marine Colonel (Ret.) Grant Newsham
This isn’t the first time that retired U.S. Marine Colonel and U.S. diplomat to the Asia Pacific, Grant Newsham, has seen America caught in a crisis like what’s unfolding in Afghanistan. It’s reminiscent of the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, when the Viet Cong capitalized on the withdrawal of U.S. contractors and other support for…
No Tali-‘Ban’ on Tweets
Social media did not exist when the Taliban last controlled Afghanistan. But with the recent return of the Taliban to power, they have been able to tweet to their nearly 900,000 followers, prompting serious inquiry into Twitter’s terms of service and giving terrorists a platform to propagandize and use western technology against us. Hosted by…
Chinese Regime’s Whitewashing of the Taliban Sparks Backlash at Home
August 21, 2021
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The Chinese regime’s warm portrayal of the Taliban, whitewashing its violent history and repression of women, has been met with backlash domestically. As the Taliban quickly seized power in Afghanistan this past week, stunning U.S. forces who were due to withdraw by month’s end, Chinese officials and state-run media have embraced the militant group’s return…
Vietnam War Reporter Ronald Yates: Is Afghanistan Withdrawal a Repeat of Vietnam?
“I thought it was bad in Saigon. This is even worse,” says three-time Pulitzer nominee Ronald Yates, who witnessed the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Yates has also reported firsthand from Afghanistan under the Soviet occupation, and for three and a half years, he did military intelligence work with…
Chinese Regime ‘Dreams of Emulating the Taliban,’ Taiwan Says
Taiwan’s foreign minister on Aug. 21 accused Beijing of wanting to follow the Taliban’s footsteps by seizing control of the democratic island, saying the island has no desire to to subjected to communist rule. The rapid fall of Afghanistan into the Taliban’s hands weeks before the scheduled withdrawal of American troops has spurred debate about…
Official Taliban Websites Go Offline, Though Reasons Unknown
BOSTON—Taliban websites that delivered the extremist group’s official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly Friday, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It is not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English, and Dari languages went offline Friday. They had been…
‘A Laughing Stock in Itself,’ Beijing Describes US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan was “a laughing stock,” during a daily press conference on Aug. 19. Islamist terrorist group Taliban swept across Afghanistan and took over the capital Kabul as the U.S. troops withdrew from where the forces had been stationed since 2001. Although the evacuation…
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