China criticizes US for abandoning Afghanistan, warns against 'shirking its responsibility'
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Webin criticized the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during a joint meeting with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and called on the Eurasian alliance to “prevent the United States from shirking its responsibility.”
"As the initiator of the Afghan issue, the United States cannot simply walk away, create more problems for the Afghan government and dump the ‘burden’ on regional countries," the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement following the SCO summit. Wang alleged during the meeting – which included four member nations that neighbor Afghanistan including China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – that the summit was necessary because of the "hasty withdrawal of the U.S. and NATO troops" from the two-decades-long war.More Related News