Feb 15, 2022: According to a report by Anadolu Agency, China on Tuesday called the US decision to split Afghan reserves a “robbery” and urged Washington to return the money to Afghans.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Twitter that the United States had stolen money from Afghans.

“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.

Hua last Friday reacted to US President Joe Biden’s executive order distributing $7 billion in assets to Afghanistan’s central bank to provide humanitarian aid to a country ravaged by years of war, while the other half was made available to the victims of 9/11 for compensation.

Earlier, the interim government in Afghanistan condemned the move while many people in the war-torn country hit the streets against Biden’s decision.

“If the US does not deviate from its position and continues its provocative actions, the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) will also be forced to reconsider its policy towards the country,” the interim government’s spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.

“The Islamic Emirate strongly rejects Biden’s unjustified actions as a violation of the rights of all Afghans,” it added.

“Any tampering of the assets of the Afghan people under the pretext of 9/11 incident is a blatant abuse and injustice which is a clear violation of the agreement reached with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as well as an attempt to cover up the 20 years of its crimes committed in Afghanistan,” the statement said.

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