{"id":8424,"date":"2022-02-14T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:50:51","slug":"the-richest-country-in-the-world-is-blatantly-plundering-the-wealth-of-the-poorest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/the-richest-country-in-the-world-is-blatantly-plundering-the-wealth-of-the-poorest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Richest country blatantly plundering the wealth of the poorest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Amid ongoing condemnation of the US over split of Afghan state funds by the President Joe Biden, the Chinese foreign ministry too has criticized Washington over the move.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The richest country in the world is blatantly plundering the wealth of the poorest! Whatever the pretext, the wealth of the #Afghan people should be owned and controlled by themselves, especially at their hour of greatest need&#8221;, tweeted Hua Chunying, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The US President Joe Biden\u2019s move to split Afghanistan\u2019s state reserves worth some $ 7 billion has been widely condemned.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, US President Joe Biden signed a decree freeing $ 7 billion of Afghanistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves. Under the decree, $ 3.5 billion is earmarked for humanitarian assistance and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and another $ 3.5 billion for compensation to the relatives of the victims of the 9\/11 attacks in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The US President\u2019s decision has provoked national and international reactions.<\/p>\n<p>In the first place, the Islamic Emirate criticized the issuance of this decree, calling it an inhumane decision. Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for its political bureau in Qatar, wrote on Twitter: \u201cThe theft and seizure of money blocked by the United States shows the lowest level of human and moral depravity of a country and a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch also issued a statement calling the decision \u201cproblematic\u201d for Afghanistan. The agency stressed that the frozen money belonged to Afghans and should be allocated to Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Amid ongoing condemnation of the US over split of Afghan state funds by the President Joe Biden, the Chinese foreign ministry too has criticized Washington over the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,17,18,200,225,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[444,596,683,12,187],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-business","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-corruption","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-joe-biden","tag-china","tag-islamic-emirate","tag-afghanistan","tag-us"],"views":441,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}