The immediate task in Afghanistan for the international community should be to work together to help the relevant parties in the country engage in dialogue and communication to prevent any new civil war or humanitarian disaster from happening, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday. 

She made the remarks while answering a reporter's question at a press conference about whether China will support the large-scale evacuation operation in Afghanistan and accept Afghan refugees. 

"The fundamental solution to the problem of Afghan refugees is to minimize unnecessary casualties and the creation of large-scale refugees," she said. 

"We should support and encourage the unity of all factions and ethnic groups in Afghanistan and find an open and inclusive political framework acceptable to the Afghan people and in line with their interests and national conditions through dialogue and consultation," she added. 

The spokesperson also responded to the U.S.'s comparison of China's Taiwan to Afghanistan, saying that the fundamental difference between Taiwan and Afghanistan is that Afghanistan is a sovereign state, while Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. 

On Thursday, a senior U.S. official said that U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed after President Joe Biden said in an interview that the U.S. "would respond" if the island were invaded, adding that Taiwan, South Korea and NATO were different situations to Afghanistan. 

Hua also criticized the American foreign policy focus on military intervention. 

"What determines victory or defeat is the hearts of the people, not military factors. Imposing American democracy will not fit," she stressed. 

There have been many discussions about the effectiveness of U.S. military intervention recently. Among them, Jeffrey Sachs, a well-known American scholar, published an article headlined "Blood in the Sand." He talked about U.S. military interventions, saying that the U.S. failure in Afghanistan is a failure of the American political culture. 

Hua said Sachs pointed out that since the Korean War, the military interventions launched by the U.S. in many developing countries have all failed, whether in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in Southeast Asia, or Iraq, Syria and Libya in the Middle East, in Latin America or Africa, or Afghanistan today. 

She stated that many media outlets have said that from the Vietnam syndrome of the last century to today's Afghanistan syndrome, the U.S. has repeatedly tried to use its own will to shape other countries and only ended up in failure.

"Only two percent or probably even less than two percent of U.S. spending in Afghanistan is spent on basic infrastructure or poverty reduction services that can truly benefit the Afghan people," Hua said.

She pointed out that the U.S. could have worked with other countries to invest more in clean water, schools, hospitals, agriculture and other projects that can help Afghanistan get rid of poverty and build a more stable and prosperous country. 

"But American leaders stressed that they would not spend money on these trivialities. Since 1945, the U.S. has established nearly 800 military bases in over 70 countries. In every case of American overseas military intervention, the United States enjoys great military advantages, but they all failed," Hua said. 

Solving problems with military intervention or power politics will only lead to more problems, and trying to impose American democracy on countries with different historical, cultural and national conditions will lead to failure, she added.

Commenting on a statement from Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid that used the term "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," Hua reiterated that China's position on the Afghan issue is very clear. 

China hopes that Afghanistan will form an open, inclusive and broadly representative government, which pursues moderate and prudent domestic and foreign policies and meets its people's aspirations and the expectations of the international community, Hua said. 

(CGTN's Su Yuting also contributed to the story)