{"id":1111,"date":"2021-09-11T00:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2021-09-11T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T00:31:05","slug":"china-offers-31m-in-emergency-aid-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"China offers $31m in emergency aid to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>China has pledged 200 million yuan ($31m, \u00a322m) worth of aid to Afghanistan, including food supplies and coronavirus vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The aid comes as Beijing said it was ready to maintain communication with the Taliban government.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the establishment of the new interim government was a \u201cnecessary step to restore order\u201d in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s interim cabinet was announced last week, with the country declared an \u201cIslamic Emirate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden has said the country is still a \u201clong way off\u201d from recognising the Taliban government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile China has been quick to step in.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the aid measures for Afghanistan at a meeting on Wednesday, with counterparts from several of Afghanistan\u2019s neighbours \u2013 Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p>He called on these countries to cooperate in helping Afghanistan, adding that China would also provide 3 million vaccine doses to the country.<\/p>\n<p>China has also been vocally critical about the US\u2019 withdrawal, saying its troops had \u201cwrecked havoc\u201d in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>A state official said the US had inflicted \u201cserious damage on the Afghan people from the very first day of its invasion to the last minute of its withdrawal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has pledged 200 million yuan ($31m, \u00a322m) worth of aid to Afghanistan, including food supplies and coronavirus vaccines. The aid comes as Beijing said it was ready to maintain communication with the Taliban government. It added that the establishment of the new interim government was a \u201cnecessary step to restore order\u201d in Afghanistan. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,177],"tags":[198,59,226],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-vaccine"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}