country following the talibans lightning takeover a week ago one of a number of nations scrambling to pull out vulnerable individualswe are concerned about the deadline set by the united states on august 31 additional time is needed to complete ongoing operations le drian told reporters at the uaes aldhafra air base where france has set up an air bridge for people evacuated from kabulchina hints at providing financial aid to taliban controlled afghanistanchina on monday hinted at stepping up financial assistance to the taliban controlled afghanistan saying it will play a positive role in helping the warravaged country amid global pushback to stop funding to kabul until the afghan militant group modified its hardline religious policiesin his media briefing on monday chinese foreign ministry spokesman wang wenbin hit out at the us saying it is main perpetrator for the afghan crisis and washington cannot leave without doing anything for afghanistans reconstructionwe hope the us will match its words with deeds and shoulder its responsibility to honour its own commitments in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction he saidthe us still has control over billions of dollars belonging to the afghan central bank money that washington is making sure remains out of the reach of the taliban the new york times reported last weekthe federal reserve bank of new york held about 7 billion of afghanistans central banks 9 billion in foreign reserves and the biden administration has already moved to block access to that moneywith agency inputs