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Here's What You Need To Know... China both worries and hopes as US departs Afghanistan In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard. Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring risk and instability to that backyard — Central Asia — and possibly even spill over their narrow, remote border into China itself and the heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.
The Taliban's takeover could certainly present political and economic opportunities for China, including developing Afghanistan's vast mineral riches, and Beijing has said it is ready to help rebuild the impoverished nation. But stability will be required to reap most of those benefits, and the immediate result of the American withdrawal has been more instability, not less.
While "hawkish" Chinese state media have portrayed events in Afghanistan as a win for Beijing and loss for Washington, that reflects "a false sense of confidence," said Meia Nouwens, a China expert with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Biden says "a lot could still go wrong" in the Afghanistan evacuation Yesterday, the president shared that 28,000 people have been evacuated from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan over the last week. Since July, some 33,000 have left the country. During his Sunday presser, he said that our country faces a "long way to go," and warned that "a lot could still go wrong." His briefing came as the British military suggested that at least seven Afghans died while trying to get into the airport.
"The evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began," he said. "It would have been true if we had started a month ago, or a month from now. There is now way to evacuate this many people without pain or loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. It's just a fact. My heart aches for those people you see. We are proving that we can, though, move thousands of people out of Kabul."
On Sunday, the Pentagon also commanded six commercial airlines to provide aid to the US military. Their designated passenger planes will be responsible for evacuating Americans from bases in the Middle East, once they are removed from Afghanistan. As the crisis continues to unfold, Biden's approval rating continues to plummet. A recent poll showed that only a quarter of the U.S. population now approves of his handling of the situation.
China will finally allow couples a third child amid demographic crisis China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature on Friday amended the Population and Family Planning Law as part of a decades-long effort by the ruling Communist Party to dictate the size of families in keeping with political directives. It comes just six years after the last change.
From the 1980s, China strictly limited most couples to one child, a policy enforced with threats of fines or loss of jobs, leading to abuses including forced abortions. A preference for sons led parents to kill baby girls, leading to a massive imbalance in the sex ratio. The rules have been revised, as the overwhelming fear is that China will grow old before it becomes wealthy.
China long touted its one-child policy as a success in preventing 400 million additional births in the world's most populous country, thus saving resources and helping drive economic growth. However, China's birth rate, paralleling trends in South Korea, Thailand and other Asian economies, already was falling before the one-child rule.
At its session Friday, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress canceled the leveling of fines for breaking the earlier restrictions and called for additional parental leave and childcare resources. New measures in finance, taxation, schooling, housing and employment should be introduced to "to ease the burden on families," the amendment said. Provisions were also made to prevent the discrimination of pregnant women or new mothers.
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