Breitbart
In the course of hectoring the United States for its “bungled and embarrassing withdraw from Afghanistan” on Thursday, China’s state-run Global Times admitted Beijing has a rapacious interest in Afghanistan’s vast rare-earths mineral resources and snarled it was none of America’s business if China makes deals with the Taliban to get what it wants.
The Global Times accused the U.S. of profiteering from Afghanistan for the past twenty years, without offering any theories on where all the plunder might have gone, and claimed America is only worried about China going after those mineral resources because the U.S. is jealous More
According to China Uncensored, the Asian giant has a sad history of developing projects in Afghanistan. There is a copper and an oil project in the war torn nation that haven’t faired well for the Chinese.
Xi told biden to get out of Afghanistan and leave your toys behind. Joe said “yes sir”. This is why.
China wanted Venezuelan oil and that turned into a cluster!uck. China is horrible at everything they do. Just look at their soon to break dam.
“The Global Times accused the U.S. of profiteering from Afghanistan for the past twenty years, without offering any theories on where all the plunder might have gone,…”
Then the GT must be absolute dolts if they don’t know how nation building and military contracts work.
They want the opium as well.
Ya know I saw that pic of a Hoe and automatically assumed this story was about Kamel Toe. Your beloved VP.
What’s 10% of 3 Trillion?
Asking for the Big Guy.
China is the market leader in rare earths already. It has a huge percentage of the stuff.
My guess is China probably wants to keep Afghanistan’s rare earths out of US hands.