From Taliban to… Taliban: Chinese state media mocks US over its 20-year stint in Afghanistan

Chinese state media Xinhua News on Sunday took a jibe on the US over Taliban’s return to energy in Afghanistan, suggesting that the US left the nation again to the place it was 20 years in the past.

Mocking the US, Xinhua News, in a three-minute-long video shared on social media, stated “When you feel life is going nowhere, just think”, including that the regime of Afghanistan “changes from Taliban to… Taliban”.”When you feel life is going nowhere, just think: with 4 U.S. presidents, 20 years, 2 trillion dollars, 2,300 soldiers’ lives… the regime of Afghanistan changes from Taliban to… Taliban,” Xinhua News captioned the video on Twitter.ALSO READ | President Biden, redeem your self and deal with PakistanThe anchor, with a sarcastic tone and with comparable background sounds, spoke about how US President Joe Biden stated “America is back” and added that this week, “those words came true”.When you are feeling life goes nowhere, simply assume: with4 U.S. presidents20 years2 trillion dollars2,300 troopers’ lives…the regime of Afghanistan modifications from Taliban to… Taliban pic.twitter.com/ZHI2OaIgxk— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) August 22, 2021
“US troops scrambled to evacuate as Taliban troops took control of the presidential palace,” the video talked about, after which the anchor struck a comparability of the identical with the Capitol Hill riots that came about earlier this yr.The anchor then went on to say that the US launched the struggle in Afghanistan “in the name of anti-terrorism”.”Now, let’s take a look at its [US’s] 20-year efforts. The number of terrorist groups in Afghanistan has gone from single digits to more than 20,” she stated.ALSO READ | Deadline for withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan could prolong past August 31, says Biden”Meanwhile, more than a 100,000 Afghan civilians were killed or were wounded and 11 million people went homeless. The war cost an average of $60 million a day, which made it a greater swallower than the Vietnam war,” she stated.The Taliban final week recaptured energy in Afghanistan after seizing Kabul, resulting in the unprecedented collapse of the US-backed Ashraf Ghani authorities, 20 years after they have been ousted by the US following the September 11, 2001 (9/11) assaults on the United States.