Former President Hamid Karzai says China’s Belt and Road Initiative provides tremendous opportunities to the regional countries including to Afghanistan. Speaking at a conference in China, the former president said: “The entire spectrum of China’s reform and opening-up policy and the launch of economic activities are historically for the whole world an amazing exercise.”
He said China has been a model for his country to follow, though it is still poor after years of war and interference.
He said the BRI has posed “tremendous opportunities” for people in Afghanistan, which is one of the BRI countries, to partner with the massive economic project and hopefully see the benefits of it as well.
Meanwhile, Karzai said, Afghanistan can also help China gain easy access to western Asia and the Middle East.
“Afghanistan provides the best axis that could make distances much less for Chinese goods to go across to the rest of the world and from the rest of the world to China,” Karzai said.
