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China tells its nationals to leave Afghanistan urgently as violence spirals

  • Citizens and organisations should strengthen emergency preparedness with security situation ‘becoming more severe and complicated’, Chinese embassy says
  • Withdrawal of US and Nato troops has been blamed by Beijing for a wave of attacks

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The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is set to be completed in September. Photo: TNS
Sarah Zheng
Beijing has warned Chinese nationals to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible, amid a rapid rise in violence in the country as the Taliban recaptures territories ahead of the complete withdrawal of US and Nato troops.

China’s embassy in Afghanistan said on Saturday that Chinese citizens and organisations needed to take extra precautions and strengthen their emergency preparedness as the situation deteriorated.

“This year, the conflicts in Afghanistan are constant, the terrorist attacks are frequent and the security situation is becoming more severe and complicated,” the embassy said in a notice, urging Chinese citizens to “be more cautious” and to “urgently depart from the country through international commercial flights”.

China has blamed a surge of attacks on the abrupt withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by the United States and the transatlantic security alliance after nearly two decades of their presence.

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China tells its nationals to leave Afghanistan as violence spirals ahead of US withdrawal

China tells its nationals to leave Afghanistan as violence spirals ahead of US withdrawal

A series of explosions at a girls’ school in Kabul last month killed more than 60 people, and the Taliban has ramped up its attacks in its takeover of strategic districts ahead of the complete withdrawal of US troops by September 11, with heavy casualties in fighting between the militants and Afghan forces.

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