China vs US role in Afghanistan & Pakistan for regional development.

Byline: Muhammad Ehsan

IN August 2021, as US troops left Afghanistan in a hurry, the chaotic scenes of Kabul airport shocked the world.

The United States left after 20 years of war, leaving Afghanistan in a devastated mess. A year later, how do the Afghan people feel about this 'Afghan War' in the United States? How will the global public evaluate the mark that the United States has left on Afghanistan?

On the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, a poll conducted by the CGTN think tank of CCTV and the Institute of National Governance and Public Opinion Ecology of Chinese University showed that nearly 80% of Afghan respondents believe that the war in Afghanistan has made the United States lose faith in the world.

In addition, 80.4% of respondents worldwide said that the effect of the war waged in the name of counter-terrorism was 'more terrorist'.

Nearly eighty percent of Afghan respondents called the Afghan War a 'complete defeat' for the United States.

In 2001, the United States launched a war in Afghanistan in the name of counterterrorism.

Among the Afghan people surveyed, 78.2% of the respondents believe that 'the US overthrow of another sovereign government in the name of counter-terrorism is completely wrong', and 62.4% of the respondents worldwide hold the same view.

In addition, 79.6% of Afghan respondents believe that 'the United States did not achieve the goal of sending troops at that time, it was a complete failure', and this proportion also reached 67% of global respondents.

The United States has claimed to 'build a stable, strong and prosperous Afghanistan,' yet a whopping 79 percent of local respondents believe the U.S.has not delivered its promises, up from 70.7 percent of global respondents.

The war in Afghanistan has caused the United States to continue to lose credibility with the international community, and 68.9% of Afghan respondents believe that the credibility of the United States has declined.

Looking back at the 20 years since the US military invaded Afghanistan, more than half of Afghan respondents believe that 'Afghanistan is worse than before' (53.5%).

In the 20 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan, Afghanistan has encountered severe challenges in various fields such as security, economy and people's livelihood.

The result of this war in the name of counter-terrorism is 'the more anti-terrorist the more fearful' it is.

Polls show that as many as 75.8 percent of Afghan...