Last October, Afghanistan's acting commerce minister told Reuters the Taliban wanted to formally join Xi's flagship "Belt and Road" infrastructure initiative.

This could be a game changer, as the progress of the BRI in the region (especially China-Pakisthan economic corridor) has been slowed down due to militant activity in the region.

"We care about the Afghans, this is why we support violent regime change and strict sanctions. The suffering Afghans would want it this way"

Nothing like liberals advocating for the death of women from starvation under the excuse of women's rights.

I still remember when Taliban was marching into Kabul and while US was fleeing out of the country, that there were many people who were desperate to argue for the war and occupation going to keep going, because Taliban would be bad for women's rights. There is no question about Taliban being bad towards women. However the logic of keeping the war going that killed mostly civilians, including women, to guard women's rights is just twisted. This "They don't let girls to go to school. let's keep bombing them" is just slightly worse of the "You won't let girls to go to school even after we bombed you. I hope you stay poor, suffer and starve".

What does motivate this? Neocon butthurth? Racism? A sense of vengeance of those who still believe in liberal universalism and nation building? A just general confusion and mixup in moral priorities?

Who do you think funded the Taliban in the first place?

Shitlibs don't even support paying reparations for problems they caused.

So make any aid contingent on human rights improvement

So you want them to remain undeveloped. Do you even know how Afghanistan ended up under Taliban control to begin with?