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By Eva Fu

August 17, 2021 Updated: August 18, 2021
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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan gave the Chinese regime a golden opportunity to attack the United States and attempt to widen its own influence. And it wasted no time to seize it.
State-run newspapers, broadcasters, and Chinese diplomats have launched a propaganda offensive not dissimilar to the regime’s ongoing efforts to deflect blame around the origins of the p******c.
The propaganda includes touting the prospective Chinese friendship with the Taliban insurgents, who have taken over Afghanistan at a sweeping pace in the past week, mocking the U.S. “defeat,” and threatening Taiwan by questioning U.S. commitment in the Asian region.
Put together, the narrative put forward by the c*******t regime was: the United States has failed Afghanistan, and Beijing is ready to offer an olive branch.
“Wherever the U.S. sets foot in, be it Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan, we see turbulence, division, broken families, deaths, and other scars in the mess it has left. The U.S. power and role is destructive rather than constructive,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying in an Aug. 17 press briefing. She had told reporters a day prior that the changes in Afghanistan were a result of “the will and choice of the Afghan people.”
In late July, about a month before the scheduled U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Chinese regime was among the first countries to signal its support for the Islamist militants when Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted a delegation of Taliban representatives in the port city of Tianjin.
‘The Enemy’s Enemy Is a Friend’
Images and videos showed thousands of Afghan civilians thronging Kabul airport in a desperate bid to escape the war-torn country, fearful of a revival of the past harsh practices—including public stoning, whipping, and h*****g—under Islamic militants’ rule two decades ago. In the Taliban-captured cities, many residents have chosen to lie low and stay indoors, while shops, supermarkets, and government offices remain shuttered.
A man pulls a girl to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 16, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters)
China and Russia are among a handful of countries that have chosen to keep their embassies open, as the United States and its allies evacuated diplomats by helicopter. Meanwhile, Chinese state media were painting a welcoming picture of the Taliban’s victory, with one article dated Aug. 17 headlined “normalcy returns to Afghan capital.”
State-run news agency Xinhua, in an Aug. 16 article, found similarity in the Talibans’ military strategy and how the Chinese C*******t Party won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang during the 1940s, calling the Taliban takeover a case of “the weak overcoming the strong” through rural guerrilla warfare.
It claimed that the “public sentiments in Afghanistan were very different from Western portrayals” and that Afghan cities were surrendering to the Taliban because the militants had “popular support.”
Hu Xijin, editor of the hawkish state-run tabloid Global Times, suggested on Twitter that “the power t***sition in Afghanistan is even more smooth than p**********l t***sition in the U.S.,” adding, in a separate tweet, that the regime’s “principle of non-interference” has enabled it to “maintain the confidence that it need not close its embassy.”
“No matter who is in power, we’re ready to be Afghanistan’s friend,” he wrote on Aug. 15.
Feng Chongyi, a professor on China studies at the University of Technology Sydney, said the Chinese C*******t Party’s (CCP) support for the Taliban was strategic.
The regime “supports the Taliban because they and the United States are on the opposite sides,” Feng told The Epoch Times.
“The CCP’s idea,” he said, “is that the enemy’s enemy is a friend.”

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Same as Vietnam. Oh yeah, WE exulted when the USSR got THEIR asses handed to them in afghanistan, remember?

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

You are an enemy of the U.S.