Biden’s Chaotic Afghanistan Pullout Handed CCP a Propaganda Tool: Pentagon Report

A U.S. Marine passes out water during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 21, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Isaiah Campbell/Getty Images

The Chinese regime eagerly made use of U.S. President Joe Biden’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan in August 2021 to sow seeds of doubt among U.S. allies about U.S. strategic leadership and global influence, a new Pentagon report says.

According to the report, the ploy came amid Chinese efforts to carry out an aggressively expansionist foreign policy, vying to position itself for economic domination over its Asian rivals and a possible showdown with Taiwan, the self-ruled island that the communist regime claims as its own.

Propaganda Tool

The report, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2022,” recounts that Chinese officials sharply criticized the hasty and tense U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. They pointed to the withdrawal as evidence that the United States is “an unreliable partner and declining power,” the report states.