One of the major justifications offered by the Biden Administration for the abdication of its duty in Afghanistan is that our global adversaries want to see us bogged down specifically in this Southern Asian country. They don’t want us to leave; they want us to forever funnel billions of dollars into a hopeless cause to stabilize a lawless country.* Even more, leaving Afghanistan allows us to shift our focus to Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
By this logic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing should be frightened or at least concerned with the US withdrawal. After all, the small deployment of 2,500 American troops there helped maintain regional stability at no cost to China.