A Year After Conquering Afghanistan, the Taliban Are Done Pretending to Be 'Inclusive'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% :Taliban leaders waited for some signs of support from the international community, most prominently from China and Iran, that it would receive recognition as the functional government of Afghanistan before formally beginning to crack down on the expansion of human rights that had occurred during the 20 years of U.S.-backed rule.
50% : Taliban jihadists never specified exactly how they defined the word, but much of the world -- from the Chinese Foreign Ministry to the United Nations to Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- publicly expressed hope that the new language expressed optimism and hope that two decades of war had somehow softened one of the world's most extreme terrorist groups.
41% : No nation formally recognizes the Taliban as a government, but Iran and China accepted it as an "interim" government in October 2021.

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