【中国观察2020年12月28日讯】据《印度斯坦时报》12月25日报导，10名中国公民被阿富汗国家安全局拘捕，罪名是从事间谍活动和从事恐怖组织活动。他们据信与中共间谍机构中共国家安全部有关。尽管间谍李阳阳声称自己是在寻求有关基地组织及新疆维吾尔人在阿富汗东部省份可能存在的信息，但据报，在其和另一名间谍沙红的家中，分别找到了枪械、弹药、爆炸物等。
根据阿富汗情报部门的信息，这两人与“哈卡尼网路”有关，而“哈卡尼网路”与基地组织和塔利班关系密切，是一个反阿富汗政府以及反北约和美国驻阿富汗军队的组织，已被美国列入“恐怖组织”名单。
值得注意的是，此次阿富汗政府不仅没有满足此前对其施以援助的中共保密的要求，反而高调曝光此次行动。更让人没想到的是，阿富汗总统加尼居然委派第一副总统、前阿富汗情报局主管萨利赫监督调查，负责与中方交涉，并公开要求北京提交一份官方道歉，承认违反国际守则，背叛了阿富汗政府的信任。如果北京满足要求，阿富汗将会考虑赦免这些中共间谍。反之，这些间谍将会在当地提起刑事诉讼。
很明显，阿富汗的要求让中共当局陷入了尴尬的境地。一方面，北京当局若公开道歉，不但颜面受损，还坐实了自己与恐怖组织勾结的罪名，其本已狼藉的国际声誉必将更加不堪。另一方面，如果北京当局拒绝公开道歉，将责任推到那10个中国人身上，除摆脱不了自身的干系外，同样无法保存颜面，同样会丢丑，同时亦让那些替中共效命的间谍们明白了自己在主子心目中的地位。这也是左右为难的中共为何竭力劝说总统加尼保密，因为保密才有运作的空间，才能保住自己的颜面。
那么，缘何阿富汗拒绝了中共保密的要求呢？要知道，中共在阿富汗的间谍活动绝非只有这一起，而且2016年阿富汗在加入“一带一路”项目后，中共曾承诺帮助其重建经济，并为其提供发展援助资金和项目。对于这样的中共，阿富汗低调处理间谍之事，答应为其保密并非难事，但其却选择了公开，甚至要求中共道歉。
可能的原因有二。其一，国际形势正在发生变化，尤其是美欧在中共病毒肆虐全球后，对中共的认知正发生前所未有的变化，即中共是对美国和世界的巨大威胁。基于这样的认知，美国川普政府连续重拳出击，直击中共要害，让中共领导人不得不发出“泰山压顶”的慨叹。
美欧的认知自然也影响着世界其他国家，美国打击下中共的狼狈、对外投资的收缩也看在其他国家眼中。作为中共病毒受害国的阿富汗，迄今已有5万多确诊病例，2千多人死亡，但基于其检测能力有限，其卫生部估计全国或许有三分之一的人口，即1千万人感染病毒。这样的局面让曾在美国获得博士学位并致力于改善与美国关系的阿富汗总统加尼，如何不能受到美国对中共认知的影响？自然其对中共当下的处境也一清二楚。
其二，阿富汗和平协议难出炉，背后有中共影子。几个月前，在美国总统川普推动下，以色列与阿联酋和巴林签署了历史性的和平协议，中东和平进程取得了新进展。在这样的背景下，依旧是在美国的推动下，阿富汗政府和恐怖组织塔利班于今年9月也开始首次直接谈判，以结束近20年的战斗。随后，塔利班释放了22名阿富汗政府军士兵。
谈判虽然开启，但双方似乎无法达成一致，因为喀布尔当局想要维护阿富汗现行宪法，塔利班想要建立一个伊斯兰酋长国。因此在近几个月中，塔利班进行的暴力活动仍在阿富汗各地出现，塔利班时常对阿富汗政府军发动袭击，尤其是在东部和南部。尽管加尼不断发出和平呼吁，但塔利班却一再予以拒绝。
不久前的12月17日，加尼邀请塔利班武装分子到坎大哈省谈判，但就在谈判期间的19日，再次发生一起炸弹袭击事件，造成至少15名儿童死亡，二十多人受伤。
塔利班从哪里获得的武器、炸弹、资金？要知道，没有外援的塔利班是不可能如此折腾的，尤其在美国连番斩首行动后。而刚刚被阿富汗政府抓获的中共间谍家中，搜出的枪械、弹药、爆炸物等，是否与此有关呢？焉知他们不是在协助恐怖组织？
其实，美国等西方国家早已知晓，包括塔利班、伊朗革命卫队在内的恐怖组织背后都有中共的鬼影，而业已被处死或下台或在任的伊拉克的萨达姆、突尼西亚的本．阿里、利比亚的卡扎菲、埃及的穆巴拉克、苏丹的巴希尔、朝鲜的金正恩、古巴的卡斯特罗、塔利班前头目本．拉登等，也都是北京曾经支持或现在还在支持的国际盟友。
2001年，美国特种部队和盟国特种兵袭击基地组织窝藏点时，还发现了大规模中共制造的武器装备，包括地对空导弹。另据透露，中共情报机构利用幌子公司，在世界各地的金融市场帮助本‧拉登筹募运作所需的资金和洗钱。本．拉登曾多次去中国治病疗养，而他能在巴基斯坦隐藏相当长的时间，也是中共与巴基斯坦商谈的结果。
在本．拉登死后，中共对塔利班的经济和军事支持并未中止。2019年6月，中共外交部罕见地首次证实塔利班代表访问中国。
无疑，作为恐怖组织的中共，正是国际恐怖主义的幕后支持者，而其目地就是转移美国的注意力，减缓自身的压力。在美军逐步撤出阿富汗之际，中共是绝不希望阿富汗当局与塔利班达成和平协议的，而其背后对其的经济和军事上的支持，美国和阿富汗当局都是心知肚明。
因此，此次阿富汗当局抓捕中共间谍并一反常态公开要求中共道歉，实则是在警告中共不要继续支持塔利班等恐怖组织，而其的底气极有可能是看到了中共在川普的重击下，正面临着前所未有的危机。是以面对阿富汗的硬气，中共该如何回应呢？
Afghanistan arrests spies to hammer Chinese Communist Party, Beijing embarrassed and humiliated
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been briefed that the country's security service has captured 10 Chinese Communist spies. Photo shows Ghani's file photo. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, while the waves have not yet subsided from the revelation of the names of nearly 2 million Chinese Communist Party members in politics, business and academia in the Western world, news of the arrests of Chinese Communist spies has also come out of Afghanistan, a small country in landlocked Asia.
The Hindustan Times reported on Dec. 25 that 10 Chinese nationals were arrested by the Afghan National Security Agency on charges of espionage and terrorist activities. They are believed to be linked to the Chinese Communist Party's spy agency, the Ministry of State Security. Although spy Li Yangyang claimed he was seeking information about the possible presence of al-Qaeda and Xinjiang Uighurs in Afghanistan's eastern provinces, firearms, ammunition, and explosives were reportedly found in his and another spy's home, Sha Hong, respectively.
According to information from Afghan intelligence, these two people are related to the "Haqqani network", which is close to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and is an organization that opposes the Afghan government as well as NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and has been included in the list of "terrorist organizations" by the United States.
It is noteworthy that the Afghan government has not only failed to meet the Chinese Communist Party's request for secrecy, but also exposed the operation in a high profile. What is even more unexpected is that Afghan President Ghani has appointed First Vice President Saleh, former head of Afghan intelligence, to oversee the investigation, to be in charge of negotiating with the Chinese side, and to publicly ask Beijing to submit an official apology, admitting to violating international codes and betraying the trust of the Afghan government. If Beijing meets the demand, Afghanistan will consider pardoning the Chinese communist spies. If not, the spies will be criminally prosecuted locally.
Obviously, Afghanistan's request puts the Chinese Communist authorities in an awkward position. On the one hand, if Beijing apologizes publicly, it will not only lose face, but it will also be convicted of colluding with terrorist organizations, which will make its already disastrous international reputation even worse. On the other hand, if Beijing refuses to make a public apology and puts the blame on the 10 Chinese, it will not be able to save its own face and will be humiliated as well, and at the same time it will show the spies who work for the CCP their status in the eyes of their masters. This is also why the Chinese Communist Party has tried to persuade President Ghani to keep the secret, because secrecy is the only way to have room to operate and to save their own face.
So why did Afghanistan refuse the CCP's request for secrecy? You should know that the Chinese Communist Party is not the only one spying in Afghanistan, and in 2016, after Afghanistan joined the "Belt and Road" project, the Chinese Communist Party promised to help rebuild its economy and provide development aid funds and projects for it. For such a Chinese Communist Party, it would not be difficult for Afghanistan to lay low on the spying and promise to keep it secret, but it chose to go public and even demand an apology from the Chinese Communist Party.
There are two possible reasons for this. One, the international situation is changing, especially the U.S. and Europe are undergoing an unprecedented change in their perception of the CCP as a great threat to the U.S. and the world after the CCP virus ravaged the world. Based on such a perception, the Trump administration has been striking hard and hitting the vitals of the Communist Party, so that the leaders of the Communist Party have to lament that "the mountain is pressing down".
The perception of the U.S. and Europe naturally also affects other countries in the world, and the woes of the CCP and the contraction of foreign investment under the U.S. crackdown are also seen in the eyes of other countries. Afghanistan, a victim of the CCP virus, has so far had more than 50,000 confirmed cases and more than 2,000 deaths, but based on its limited testing capacity, its Ministry of Health estimates that perhaps one-third of the country's population, or 10 million people, are infected with the virus. How can such a situation prevent Afghan President Ghani, who earned his doctorate in the United States and has worked to improve relations with the U.S., from being influenced by the U.S. perception of the Chinese Communist Party? Naturally, his perception of the CCP's current situation is also clear.
Secondly, there is a shadow of the Chinese Communist Party behind the difficulty of the Afghan peace agreement. A few months ago, under the impetus of U.S. President Donald Trump, Israel signed a historic peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and new progress was made in the Middle East peace process. Against this backdrop, still pushed by the U.S., the Afghan government and the terrorist group Taliban also began their first direct talks in September this year to end nearly 20 years of fighting. Subsequently, the Taliban released 22 Afghan government soldiers.
Although negotiations opened, the two sides can't seem to agree because the authorities in Kabul want to preserve the current Afghan constitution and the Taliban want to create an Islamic emirate. As a result, violence carried out by the Taliban has continued to be seen across Afghanistan in recent months, with the Taliban launching occasional attacks on Afghan government forces, especially in the east and south. Despite Ghani's persistent calls for peace, the Taliban have repeatedly rejected them.
Not long ago, on Dec. 17, Ghani invited Taliban militants to Kandahar province to negotiate, but just during the negotiations, on Dec. 19, another bomb attack killed at least 15 children and wounded more than two dozen others.
Where did the Taliban get the weapons, the bombs, the money? It is important to know that the Taliban cannot fold so much without foreign aid, especially after a series of U.S. decapitation operations. And are the guns, ammunition, and explosives recovered from the homes of the Chinese Communist spies just captured by the Afghan government related to this? Do you know they are not assisting terrorist organizations?
In fact, the United States and other Western countries have known for a long time that the Chinese Communist Party is behind terrorist organizations including the Taliban and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, and that Saddam in Iraq, Ben Ali in Tunisia, Gaddafi in Libya, and the Chinese government have been executed or have stepped down or are in office. Saddam in Iraq, Ben Ali in Tunisia, Gaddafi in Libya, Mubarak in Egypt, Bashir in Sudan, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, Castro in Cuba, and Bin Laden, the former head of the Taliban, were all executed or removed from power or in office. All of them are also international allies that Beijing has supported or is still supporting.
In 2001, when U.S. Special Forces and allied special forces raided Al Qaeda harbors, they also discovered large-scale Chinese Communist-made weaponry, including surface-to-air missiles. It was also revealed that Chinese Communist intelligence agencies used front companies to help raise funds and launder money for bin Laden's operations in financial markets around the world. Bin Laden Bin Laden has made several trips to China for medical treatment, and he has been able to hide in Pakistan for a significant period of time as a result of negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Pakistan.
After bin Laden's death, the Chinese Communist Party was not interested in him. In June 2019, the Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed for the first time that representatives of the Taliban had visited China.
There is no doubt that the Chinese Communist Party, as a terrorist organization, is behind international terrorism, and its goal is to divert the attention of the United States and ease the pressure on itself. As U.S. forces are gradually withdrawing from Afghanistan, the Chinese Communist Party in no way wants the Afghan authorities to reach a peace agreement with the Taliban, whose economic and military support is well known to both the U.S. and Afghan authorities.
Therefore, this time, the Afghan authorities arrested the Chinese Communist Party spies and uncharacteristically publicly demanded an apology from the Chinese Communist Party, in fact, they are warning the Chinese Communist Party not to continue to support terrorist organizations such as the Taliban, and its bottom line is most likely to see that the Chinese Communist Party is facing an unprecedented crisis under the heavy blow of Trump. It is to face the hardness of Afghanistan, how should the Chinese Communist Party respond?