In order to fully address a humanitarian crisis, China holds that both the symptoms and the root causes, namely turbulence and poverty, should be addressed and an environment essential to development needs to be created.
Only when the fate of the nation is placed in the hands of the Libyan people, backed by foreign aid with no political strings attached, can it achieve any real form of reconciliation.
The U.S.-led transformation has failed to accelerate the reform of Middle East countries and instead led to a resurgence of radical religions in the region and undermined the process of political modernization.
The world would be safer and more stable today if the US did what it falsely accuses China of not doing and that is engaging in the rules-based regional and international order together with China, Russia and their neighbors in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, UN and the like.
The strategic importance of this region determines that the U.S. will not really withdraw. The retrenchment will be a long-term process of trial and error, during which policy confusions, contradictions, repetitions, and so on, are inevitable.
The catastrophe in Afghanistan is the inevitable outcome of the long-term exertion of hegemony and power politics by the U.S. in the world.
If the reason for America’s failure stems from democracy itself, and the demand to place national self-interest above the rights of others, then that would suggest that democracy could endanger the collective well-being of the global community.
In order for think tanks to have something to write about and hence attract money, they need to have ‘problems’ in the world and propose ‘solutions’ America’s leaders can engage in.
The essence of the policy failure is that the US should not have invaded Afghanistan in the first place.
China hopes that the Afghan people will grasp the historic opportunity and take the nation’s destiny into their own hands.
Afghanistan is one example, but not the only one, that strongly proves America’s failure in its policy of interference.
Through these long-term development aid and investments, the world can help Afghanistan sustain peace and stand on its own feet. A peaceful Afghanistan with stable business environment and human resources will be beneficial for everyone.
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