Yin Gang on Afghanistan's "falling" President Ghani: Not grounded! He is a reader with low emotional intelligence

Look at the news knews reporter Zhang Yiwei

2021-08-17 16:59

Afghanistan has once again reached a crossroads in history. On August 15, the storm clouds changed overnight. The Taliban entered Kabul without bloodshed, Afghan President Ghani "fled" other countries with a full load of banknotes, and the US troops evacuated in a hurry at the airport... When they woke up, the Taliban soldiers were already sitting on the throne of the Afghan president. There was no resistance from the government forces, and the president and vice president quickly left the country, and a government that had been operating hard for 7 years collapsed. The withdrawal of U.S. troops eventually turned into a great escape, a great rout, and a great collapse. After some terrifying waves, the aftermath is still shaking, and it also raises a series of questions: Why can the Taliban win so quickly? Is this a stampede effect or an avalanche result of a combination of multiple factors?

Yin Gang, a researcher at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in the program "Global Intersection": Militarily, Afghan President Ghani knows that the Taliban are his enemies, so when the United States and the Taliban negotiate, he resolutely opposes it, so he can be said to be an obstacle to the national reconciliation in Afghanistan. In terms of internal affairs, the Northern Alliance was the main force in his government's resistance to the Taliban, but for so many years he always opposed the Northern Alliance, fearing that they would grow and threaten his position. This man is so ungrounded that his political emotional intelligence cannot be lower.

Zhao Weiming, a professor at Shanghai University of Foreign Chinese, said: As the "airdropped president" of the United States, although Ghani said that he won the two presidential elections in 2014 and 2019, the facts are difficult to determine. This election is also a great irony of American democracy.