BBCNEWS BBC News August 27, 2021 23:08:00
As much as 75% of state spending came from the outside world. that helped to pay for everything, from security forces to government officials to schools that offered girls and education for the first time and hospitals and health care. now the taliban are in charge, who's going to pay the bills? could western aid with strings attached moderate the militants or will they now look elsewhere for support? earlier this week, the taliban proudly tweeted a photo of themselves meeting the chinese ambassador. both china and russia have embassies in the capital. the difficulty with using economic levera...