Chinese state-controlled media have revved up their critical rhetoric surrounding the Taliban’s lightning takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces.
The Global Times, a hawkish tabloid supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), called the coup a “U.S. humiliation” and claimed it showed the U.S. “cannot win a war anymore.”
The daily publication has used its platform to suggest nations like Taiwan cannot expect to receive the full backing of the U.S. – despite American financial and military assistance awarded to Taipei.