{"id":734892,"date":"2021-09-09T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734892"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:36:09","slug":"china-plans-to-give-aid-vaccines-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-plans-to-give-aid-vaccines-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"China Plans To Give Aid, Vaccines To Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-plans-to-give-aid-vaccines-to-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CD3BB58F-C771-4C58-BBC7-B572FBCBB7F9_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">China is planning to give aid and COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan in a move designed to strengthen the connection between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/09\/asia\/china-vaccines-aid-afghanistan-intl-hnk\/index.html\">reported<\/a> by CNN, \u201cChina will provide almost $31 million worth of food, winter weather supplies, vaccines, and medicine to&nbsp;<span class=\"s1\">Taliban<\/span>-controlled Afghanistan, China\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHua Chunyin, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, said the decision was announced during the first meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan\u2019s neighboring countries and would be \u2018for emergency use to the Afghan people,\u2019\u201d the outlet added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also reportedly said that China will give 3 million vaccine doses to Afghanistan in the first round, according to the Chinese government-run media Xinhua. It is unclear what schedule, if any, has been set for the vaccines to be distributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese officials reportedly took aim at the United States in the announcements, as well. \u201cSpeaking at the foreign minister\u2019s meeting in Beijing via video link, Wang also said the United States and its allies were more obligated than any other country to provide economic and humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people,\u201d CNN noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">China has been inching closer to solidifying its relationship with the Taliban over the past several weeks after the disastrous withdrawal of United States troops from the region was carried out by the policies of President Joe Biden and his administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The failure of the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to effectively take troops out of the country led to the swift takeover of the nation by the Taliban and resulted in a terrorist attack carried out by Islamic State-Khorasan that killed 13 U.S. service members and hundreds of Afghans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN reported that Taliban leaders and the Chinese foreign minister held a meeting in July where Wang said the Taliban was \u201can important military and political force in Afghanistan\u201d and stated they would play \u201can important role in the country\u2019s peace, reconciliation and reconstruction process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week, a Taliban spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2021-09-01\/Taliban-looking-forward-to-building-strong-ties-with-China-13cpAx2WIDK\/index.html\"><span class=\"s2\">spoke<\/span><\/a> of the ties the group was looking to have with China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cChina is a very important and strong country in our neighborhood, and we have had very positive and good relations with China in the past,\u201d he said.&nbsp;\u201cWe want to make these relations even stronger and want to improve the level of mutual trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taliban-china-wants-to-beef-up-relations-with-us\">noted<\/a> that according to the Taliban, \u201cChina reportedly wants to \u2018beef up\u2019 relations with the extremist group in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/china-to-keep-kabul-embassy-open-and-beef-up-relations-say-taliban\">The Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;reported on Friday, \u201cChina has promised to keep its embassy in Kabul open and \u2018beef up\u2019 relations, the Taliban have said \u2026 A spokesman for the Islamist militia, Suhail Shaheen, said on Friday a senior member of the Taliban\u2019s political office in Qatar had been told by China\u2019s deputy foreign minister that Beijing also aimed to increase humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/07\/21\/china-taliban-afghanistan-biden-troop-withdrawal-belt-road-geopolitics-strategy\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a> reported in July:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10.589424572317\">\n<p><em>Beijing has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/china-has-a-big-plan-for-post-us-afghanistan-and-its-worth-billions\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;been actively engaging with Kabul on construction of the Peshawar-Kabul motorway, which would connect Pakistan to Afghanistan and make Kabul a participant in China\u2019s massive infrastructure and investment plan, the Belt and Road Initiative. \u2026 Beijing is also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/article\/20210701-a-new-road-to-an-inaccessible-land\">building<\/a>&nbsp;a major road through the Wakhan Corridor\u2014a slim strip of mountainous territory connecting China\u2019s westernmost province of Xinjiang to Afghanistan\u2014and onward to Pakistan and Central Asia \u2026 According to a 2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/rare-earth-afghanistan-sits-1-trillion-minerals-n196861\">report<\/a>, Afghanistan may possess nearly a trillion dollars\u2019 worth of extractable rare-earth metals locked within its mountains.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinas-military-jets-repeatedly-fly-into-taiwans-air-defense-zone-since-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-report\"><span class=\"s2\">reported<\/span><\/a> earlier this week, China appears to be ramping up its activity in other areas, as well, including Taiwan, after the tragic and devastating withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cChinese military aircraft, including fighter jets, have been flying repeatedly into Taiwan\u2019s air defense zone,\u201d The Daily Wire reported. This is reportedly not the first time China has put jets into Taiwan\u2019s air defense zone during the Biden administration, The Daily Wire noted, adding on January 24, 15 aircraft were spotted and on 12 April, Taiwan reported 25 jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is planning to give aid and COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan in a move designed to strengthen the connection between the two countries.As reported by CNN, \u201cChina will provide almost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893813,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}