[Breitbart] A group of Chinese "business representatives" is planning an "expo" event in Kabul, Afghanistan, for April, the Chinese state-run Global Times revealed on Sunday, meant to help China profit off of business under the jihadist Taliban regime.
Taliban officials have repeatedly asserted since taking power in August that they anticipated significant financial backing from the Chinese Communist Party. The Taliban, a jihadist terrorist organization that ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, took over the country once again last year after President Joe Biden broke an agreement with the group that prompted a national campaign of conquest ending in Kabul. No foreign government has formally recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, but the former president of the country, Ashraf Ghani, fled; the Afghan military collapsed; and no significant challenge to the Taliban’s control of the nation exists.
The Chinese Communist Party has referred to the Taliban as an "interim government" in the recent past, suggesting some degree of acceptance.
The Global Times, a mouthpiece for the communist regime, reported that state-backed Chinese businesses (China is a communist country, so all legal business activity is government-controlled) have increased their communication with Afghan traders seeking to deepen ties with the country.
"China and Afghan business interactions have seen an upward trend in recent days, driven by the unleashing of market potential for Afghan agricultural and other related products in China, its largest neighboring market," the propaganda newspaper reported, citing "business representatives" in China. FJB China is going to mine Afghanistan for all the metals and minerals they can.
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There's no way to get the minerals out of Afghanistan. The Chinese already tried building a railway some years ago. The Taliban ripped them off and no tracks were ever laid.
Better China wastes their money in this shithole than us. Should have gotten out in 2002.
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So - the Taliban, backwards 7th century goat humpers who don't know a balance sheet from a bed sheet, are gonna hook up with the Chinese Communist Party, whose only limited and piss-poor knowledge and experience in finance is building lots and lots of empty buildings of shit quality?
God damn, bring it right the fuck on.
And Woodrow - it's been remarked here on Rantburg the difficulty and huge (read - not ever fucking worth it) expenses involved in laying out infrastructure of any sort in Afghanistan, most likely the last place on the planet besides Antartica where anyone would like to pay serious cake for, well, anything, never mind a highway or railway from these as of yet unidentified 'mines' to ... some slave labor camp where the Uighurs will be worked to death to get all the lithium and ion out of those rocks so AOC can get a decent replacement battery for her Tesla.
Norway goes full Sweden stupid
[GoogleTranslate] The Taliban does not come to Oslo to discuss women's rights. The Taliban is coming to Oslo to raise money.
Shafiullah Azam, one of the Taliban delegates , told the Associated Press:
- We ask them to release Afghan funds and stop punishing ordinary Afghans for political reasons. Then kill yourselves, to please allan of course
The Taliban are pushing the people of Afghanistan hostage to put pressure on the United States to release $ 9.5 billion worth of goods frozen by the Americans when the Taliban took Kabul and to take over the Asraf Ghani government's straw in the Norwegian aid fund .
From New York, Støre obscures in a familiar style with an incomprehensible story. He tells VG that "They are here because we have arranged for them to meet Afghans who are in exile, civil society in Afghanistan, the United States, the EU and NATO. (...) Norway can do this because we are recognizable over time "
Does Støre think that the Taliban is coming to Norway to greet Afghans who have fled the Taliban? Or do they come as old friends because they recognize us, and not as enemies for whom we have sacrificed the lives of Norwegian soldiers in a war that lasted almost 20 years and which has cost Norwegian taxpayers many billions of kroner?
While the other Nordic countries chose to safeguard and consolidate their interests in the immediate area, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was reorganized and instead turned its eyes to more distant skies and a form of global philanthropy that was enthusiastically called engagement policy by Stoltenberg and a missionary Bondevik, and since ' Norwegian reputation building' with at least as much glow by Erna Solberg .
In this way, Oslo has gained an international reputation as 'capital of easy money' . In fact, several embassies here have the main task of triggering Norwegian funding for projects in their home country.
And while there are fires on the border with Ukraine and Norwegian electricity customers are forced to pay the highest electricity prices in Europe, Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (Labor Party) kindly distributes them to the terrorist organization Taliban, while Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Social Democrats) sits still like a mouse.
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[REGNUM] The government and parliament of Burkina Faso have declared the military that seized power in the republic no longer active, leFaso reports on January 24. President Rock Marc Christian Kabore is removed from power.
The corresponding statement was made today, January 24, by representatives of the Patriotic Movement for Protection and Restoration, led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba .
The rebels announced the closed borders of the republic and the introduction of a curfew from 21:00 to 05:00.
[AnNahar] al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... announced Monday the "suspension" of his role in political life and confirmed that neither him nor his political movement would run in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The 51-year-old, who was propelled into politics by his father Rafik's liquidation in 2005, announced his decision during a presser in Beirut.
"Rafik Hariri's project can be summarized with two ideas -- preventing civil war in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... and providing a better life for the Lebanese. I succeeded in the first and didn't achieve enough success in the second," Hariri said.
"Preventing civil war obliged me to engage in settlements, from containing the repercussions of May 7 (festivities) to the Doha Agreement to visiting Damascus, Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... 's election and the electoral law," the ex-PM added, noting that these settlements came at his expense.
Noting that "preventing civil war" and "securing a better life for the Lebanese" were behind every step that he took, Hariri pointed out that this approach was the reason behind the loss of his "personal fortune, some foreign friendships, a lot of national alliances and even some comrades and brothers."
"What I cannot bear is that a number of Lebanese now consider me to be one of the members of the ruling class that caused the disaster," Hariri went on to say.
Adding that he is convinced that "there is no hope for any positive chance for Lebanon amid the Iranian influence, international confusion, national divisions, the aggravation of sectarianism and the state’s decay," the ex-PM announced the suspension of his role in political life and called on al-Mustaqbal Movement to take the same step.
"No nominations will be made for the parliamentary elections, neither by al-Mustaqbal Movement nor in the name of the Movement," he confirmed.
Addressing the supporters of political Harirism, the ex-PM said he will "remain in the service of our people and country."
"From our position as citizens, we will continue to cling to Rafik Hariri’s project to prevent civil war and seek a better life for all Lebanese. We will remain in the service of Lebanon and the Lebanese and our houses will remain open," Hariri added.
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I can understand his desire to live up to his father's legacy, but I think Lebanon is way past the point where his sacrifice would have a positive outcome for the nation.
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[Breitbart] A group of Chinese "business representatives" is planning an "expo" event in Kabul, Afghanistan, for April, the Chinese state-run Global Times revealed on Sunday, meant to help China profit off of business under the jihadist Taliban regime.
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