On April 6, 2022, in Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian gestures during a media briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office. Zhao made a statement at a press conference when he answered a relevant question.
In the past few days, Chinese military's Y- 20 cargo planes arrived at Kabul International Airport, carrying relief supplies for Afghan people. Some internet users said this contrasted sharply with what happened at the same airport in August last year, when two Afghans fell to their deaths from a US C-17 cargo plane that hadtily taken off.
One plane, at the same airport, caused the loss of lives, while the other brought hopes, Zhao said. After the earthquake hit, China acted at top speed to help Afghanistan to the best of its capacity. We immediately provided 50 million yuan $7.45 million of emergency humanitarian assistance to the quake-affected areas in Afghanistan. Zhao said that China is one of the first countries to provide the biggest and most tangible aid to Afghanistan. Three batches of relief supplies had arrived in Afghanistan as of June 29, and the Chinese side is in close coordination with the interim government of Afghanistan to ensure that relief supplies are delivered to the people affected as soon as possible to help them pull through. READ MORE: World urged to help Afghans as Chinese aid arrives in Kabul.
Zhao said that the United States is the one that has caused the ongoing humanitarian disasters in Afghanistan and is immediately responsible for the raging wars and conflicts, poverty, hunger and the people's suffering in that country for many years.
During the 20 years of the US invasion of Afghanistan, over 30,000 Afghan civilians were killed and 11 million Afghans became refugees. The United States also supported, supported and participated in the production and trade of drugs in Afghanistan during the same period. The cultivation of poppy and the production of opium far exceed the level before the US invasion, leading to drug proliferation in the country and seriously threatening the lives and health of Afghan people, according to Zhao.
It is even more indignant that the United States has frozen $7 billion of life-saving money, making things worse for them, because they haven't asked the Afghan people. Zhao said that this egregious behavior is more than outrageous.
In the face of natural disasters and man-made calamities, the United States should immediately stop chokeholding the Afghan people and return to them Afghanistan's national assets as soon as possible, said Zhao, saying that the United States should take concrete actions to remedy the harms they have inflicted on the Afghan people and mitigate the ongoing humanitarian disaster in that country.
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