BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the United States to unconditionally return assets belonging to the Afghan people and take concrete actions to repair the damage caused to them.

Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper, launched an online petition on Thursday, calling on the U.S. government to give back the „life-saving money“ to people in Afghanistan.

When asked to comment on the petition, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press briefing that the petition received signatures from over 200,000 netizens within 24 hours. He said this proves that what the United States has done to Afghanistan is piracy, and it has enraged the public.

Calling the United States the culprit of the Afghan issue, the spokesperson said more than 30,000 innocent civilians were killed during the Afghan war started by the United States and about 11 million people have become refugees.

The irresponsible withdrawal of its forces by the United States has created a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, with 22.8 million people facing starvation and 3.2 million children under five suffering malnutrition, the spokesperson said, citing figures of the World Food Programme.

At this critical moment, the United States did not shoulder its due responsibility to help the Afghan people alleviate their humanitarian crisis. Instead, it openly plundered the country’s assets, further aggravating the suffering of the Afghan people, Wang said.

He noted that the U.S. behavior has proved the essence of the so-called rules-based international order as touted by the United States is actually the order of power politics for the purpose of maintaining U.S. hegemony.

„We call on the United States to immediately and completely lift the ‚freeze‘ on Afghan assets in the United States and unilateral sanctions, unconditionally return assets belonging to the Afghan people, and take concrete actions to repair the damage caused to the Afghan people,“ Wang said.

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BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — China opposes any act of inciting war and has taken a responsible attitude from the very beginning to persuade all parties not to escalate tensions and incite war, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday.

Spokesperson Hua Chunying made the remarks at a daily press briefing in response to queries on the Ukraine issue, noting that the United States has sent at least 1.5 billion dollars‘ worth of over 1,000 tonnes of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

„At that time, if all the parties had promoted peace talks, reviewed the historical context of the Ukraine issue, respected and accommodated each other’s security concerns, and resolved the issue in a reasonable, proper way for a soft landing of the situation, what would be happening now?“ Hua asked.

The culprit of the tensions should now consider how to put out the fire as soon as possible with concrete actions, instead of blaming others, she said.

In response to the U.S. State Department spokesperson’s remarks on Ukraine, Hua said the United States is not qualified to tell China what to do on the issue of respecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

„Even today, we are still facing the real threat from the United States and its so-called allies wantonly interfering in China’s internal affairs and undermining China’s sovereignty and security on Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan issues,“ she said.

That is why China always firmly upholds the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and basic norms governing international relations, resolutely safeguarding its own sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, as well as international fairness and justice, she added.

The United States, in nearly 250 years since it was founded, has gone less than 20 years without foreign military operations, she said, adding that the excuses used for military interventions are sometimes democracy or human rights, sometimes simply a small bottle of laundry powder or a piece of fake news.

In response to the U.S. suggestion that Russia launched its operations thanks to China’s backing, Hua said China’s Russian friends would be very unhappy to hear that.

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a major independent country, Russia has independently formulated and implemented its own diplomatic strategy based on its own judgment and national interests, she said.

Stressing that China-Russia relations are built on the basis of non-alliance, non-confrontation and the non-targeting of third countries, Hua said this is fundamentally different from the United States‘ actions in drawing ideological lines, forming cliques with bloc politics and creating confrontations and divisions.

As for the China-Russia joint statement, Hua suggested that the U.S. side should read it again scrupulously, adding that strengthening strategic communication and coordination between China and Russia and safeguarding the international system, with the UN playing a central coordinating role, demonstrates exactly the role of major responsible countries.

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„Die Chinesischen Medien berichten derzeit vor allem über die russische Sicht der Dinge. Und in den chinesischen sozialen Netzwerken wird der Angriff auf die Ukraine von manchen Bürger als Ohrfeige für die USA gefeiert und Russland als stark gelobt.“ZDF