News Analysis The United States is likely to intensify efforts to strengthen alliances aimed at countering the Chinese regime, in the wake of blistering criticism over how Washington handled its withdrawal from Afghanistan, experts say. The United States’ pullout from Afghanistan was intended to align with the Biden administration’s efforts to shift its focus to Asia, where a communist Beijing has bolstered its military and economic influence in the past decade. But the United States’ chaotic withdrawal amid a rapid Taliban takeover of the country has raised concerns about the administration’s credibility in other parts of the world. The Chinese regime, quick to exploit the crisis, has been on a propaganda spree, calling into question Washington’s reliability in the Asian region, particularly towards Taiwan, the democratic self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own and threatens to invade. President Joe Biden on Aug. 20 said that he had seen “no …
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