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By Dr Prashant Kumar Singh* In August 2021, the Global Times declared the US “abandonment” of Afghanistan a lesson for Taiwan. It warned that it was “Afghanistan today” and will be “Taiwan tomorrow.” Separate headlines in the the Global Times’ online editions said that the US was “reaffirming commitment only to ‘ fool Taiwan separatists ’,” and that “ US treachery ” has scared the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). It also used the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to remind us of its other withdrawals— from Iraq in 2011 and South Vietnam in 1973 . Even though the US, under...
