CNN reveals that China will hit US forces in Afghanistan
In recent days, U.S. President Donald Trump has received a briefing on the attempt by China to pay “non-state actors” to attack American forces in Afghanistan. CNN cited a senior official of the White House administration as the source, who stated that on December 17, Trump was given the details.This was addressed by the outgoing president with Robert O’Brien, his national security advisor. News of the briefing and the intention of the administration to declassify the data was first revealed by Axios on Wednesday.
The situation harks back to early 2020 intelligence records that Russia have gave Afghan insurgents incentives for killing American forces in Afghanistan. The Donald has yet to call Russia out on the topic publicly, CNN said. President-elect Joe Biden has access to the same intelligence papers, according to White House protocols, as he receives the President’s Regular Brief.
The documents were identified by a Biden transition official as “uncorroborated information,” adding that the President-elect is not very concerned about the safety of our service members and will be kept accountable to everyone who endangers American citizens everywhere. The official told CNN that Biden’s teams are trying to learn as much as they can about these claims, stressing the need for Trump personnel, including the Department of Defense, to cooperate entirely.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment immediately. In June, the U.S. media accused Russian intelligence of offering money as incentives to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan if they killed American or British soldiers there, citing EU security officials.Diplomacy sought to find cooperation with China during the Obama-Biden presidency, while Trump opted for confrontation. But over the years, Biden’s stance has shifted, and analysts do not anticipate many changes from the Donald to Beijing side. Since 2001, Washington has been in Afghanistan. Weeks after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States by Afghanistan-based Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, a US-led alliance expelled the Taliban.
The Taliban regrouped and became an insurgency force that was involved in more than two thirds of the nation by 2018. In November last year, the U.S. The Defense Department announced a decision by Trump to withdraw 2,500 soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq by mid-January 2021.As part of an agreement concluded with the militants in early February, the White House began withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. But as Al-Qaeda steps up its offensives in the midst of stalled consultations with the Afghan government, brutality in the country has recently increased. There are thousands of American troops in Iraq today, joining an international coalition to combat Daesh and other terrorist groups.
