China on Tuesday called the US decision to split Afghan reserves a “robbery” and urged Washington to return the money to Afghans.
The US stole money from Afghans, Hua Chunying, spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry, said on Twitter.
Hua reacted to the US President Joe Biden’s executive order last Friday splitting Afghanistan’s central bank’s $7 billion in assets, allocating half for humanitarian relief to the poverty-stricken country ravaged by 42 years of war, while keeping the other half available for compensation to victims of the 9/11 attacks.
“This is flagrant robbery and shameless moral decline. The US should immediately return the stolen money back to the Afghan people, and compensate people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and more who died or suffered losses from the US military invasions,” Hua said.
