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2022-01-25 Afghanistan
Saw it coming- China Prepares Afghanistan Business Expo to Unleash Taliban's ‘Market Potential'
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Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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#1 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.
Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-25 00:18||   2022-01-25 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 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.
Posted by Raj 2022-01-25 00:23||   2022-01-25 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 It could be a growth experience for the Chinese to come in contact with something they can't control.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-25 08:00||   2022-01-25 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Britain: chased out
Russia: chased out
US: chased out
China: ?
Posted by irish rage boy  2022-01-25 10:04||   2022-01-25 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 In Chinese, Afghan rhymes with Uighur.
Posted by Chesney Phineger5262 2022-01-25 10:16||   2022-01-25 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Those Chinamen would just love to get their hands on all that opium so they can sell it to Brandon.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-01-25 14:19||   2022-01-25 14:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Matter of opinion Raj. China is looking long term, decades down the road.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-25 23:05||   2022-01-25 23:05|| Front Page Top

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