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Afghanistan has trillions in mineral wealth. And yet you still have to extract it somehow and sell it. Unlikely that happens any time soon if ever.
by recuter 4y ago
Afghanistan has trillions in mineral wealth. And yet you still have to extract it somehow and sell it. Unlikely that happens any time soon if ever.
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoApparently chinese are try to extract it.[0] They also just got this oil deal recently.[1] I think the mineral extracting is actually good, regardless of who does it. It's increasing total GDP in any event. [0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pursues-afghanistans-mineral-wealth-after-u-s-exit-11647172801 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pursues-afghanistans-mine... [1]https://thegeopolitics.com/chinas-540-million-energy-deal-with-taliban-in-afghanistan-what-does-it-mean/ https://thegeopolitics.com/chinas-540-million-energy-deal-wi...
- recuter 4y agoVideo essay on it by Caspian Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9pOQioOEGg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9pOQioOEGg I think you are being rather naive that the Chinese won't simply bribe the right people and any benefit from the extraction actually reaches the Afghan people or increases their GDP in any meaningful way. They can try anyhow, who knows how well that will go. Might be their turn to get stuck in a quagmire over there.
- panick21_ 4y agoAfghanistan is about the worst possible place to extract resources from. Yes, yes China is trying, but its China, its a billion people thy are trying literally everything everywhere. China will find Afghanistan just as useless as the US and literally every other empire for 5000 years.