{"id":13353,"date":"2025-07-13T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:16:17","slug":"zalmay-khalilzad-denies-claims-of-chinese-presence-at-bagram-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/07\/13\/zalmay-khalilzad-denies-claims-of-chinese-presence-at-bagram-airfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmay Khalilzad denies claims of Chinese presence at Bagram Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: In response to Donald Trump&#8217;s repeated claims regarding China&#8217;s presence at Bagram International Military Airport in Afghanistan, former U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has rejected these assertions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement on his X account on Saturday night said,\u201d I don&#8217;t believe the report suggesting that the Chinese Communist Party is now managing the strategic Bagram airbase is true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days ago, Trump criticized the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan during a meeting in Washington, calling it a shameful moment in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also claimed that the U.S. should not have lost control of Bagram Airport, which is now supposedly in the hands of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Islamic Emirate has previously dismissed Trump&#8217;s claims, stating that no foreign forces are present or in control of any part&nbsp;of&nbsp;Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: In response to Donald Trump&#8217;s repeated claims regarding China&#8217;s presence at Bagram International Military Airport in Afghanistan, former U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has rejected these assertions. In a statement on his X account on Saturday night said,\u201d I don&#8217;t believe the report suggesting that the Chinese Communist Party is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13355,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}