STORY: U.S. kidnapped by military-industrial interest groups, bringing crisis to world: Chinese scholar
DATELINE: June 14, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:09
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: POLITICS

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1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG WEIWEI, Director of the China Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai

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SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG WEIWEI, Director of the China Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai
"The United States induced a 20-year war in Afghanistan. The U.S. has spent 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars on the war in Afghanistan, trampling on Afghan people's human rights, and causing nothing but displacement and sufferings of the Afghan people.
With 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars, we could almost eliminate extreme poverty in the whole world, including that in the United States. This expenditure is also sufficient to exempt 45 million Americans from their heavy loan burden for universities and colleges.
However, the U.S. government is unwilling to do so. Since the U.S. political system has long been kidnapped by the U.S. military-industrial interest groups, they have made a lot of money through wars, including the Afghanistan War and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But they have brought one crisis after another and even disasters to the peoples around the world, including the American people. How can a country of this nature be deemed qualified to address matters concerning human rights?"

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)