Afghanistan International: Yue Xiaoyong, China’s special envoy for Afghanistan, announced that Beijing has provided about $64 million in aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in three years. According to SIGAR, the United States has also sent more than $3 billion to Afghanistan during this period. US aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the past three years has been about 47 times higher than China’s. Some critics of the Taliban, as well as the US special inspector, say that the Taliban may have had access to and benefited from the money flowing into Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).