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To transport what? Small dick energy?
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Yeah I’ve learned a little about China making loans they know will default, which then give them ownership of ports or whatever as a remedy. I think they might be a little over optimistic that these contracts will ever mean anything though. Especially in a place like Afghanistan.
Lithium and rare earth metals.
Heroin/opium?
Isn’t like the one good thing the Taliban does is banning the drug manufacturing.
I’m sure this will end well for all parties involved.
Only superpower left who hasn’t tried to invade them at some point in time.
They will when the Taliban defaults on their debt to them. Then they discover why you don’t invade Afghanistan.
You get bogged down in tribal wars and spend 20 years worth of time and treasure.
Everyone does it eventually
You could say it’s a trail by fire of a superpower.
China knows they will default. This is about control.
China has invaded Afghanistan multiple times since the Han Dynasty in the BCs.
Just softening them up for 2027
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Critical support for our Taliban comrades, clearly /s
That title grammars wrong.
Edit: The author fucking studied at Oxford, too!
I think its almost always the editor that’s charged with creating titles.
Is it? It reads a little awkward, and it’s not how I’d have phrased it, but I think it’s fine
It should be “Taliban plans” or “Taliban says it plans”.
That’s just an ellipsis to avoid repeating the subject, even if just by using a pronoun, in a headline. It’s completely fine as far as grammar goes, but since we’re not living in the age of the telegraph any more, it arguably wouldn’t hurt if journalists ditched that antiquated format and made headlines more readable.
That’s just an ellipsis to avoid repeating the subject, even if just by using a pronoun, in a headline.
Exactly. Physical headlines had limited space and almost have their own grammar and vocabulary. This is also why you see “slams” and other short words.
Yeah. That’ll end well.
Good luck buddy.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping’s huge ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said on Thursday.
The Pakistan “economic corridor” refers to the huge flagship section of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Afghanistan’s neighbour.
Azizi said the administration would also send a technical team to China to enable it to “better understand” the issues standing in the way of it joining the initiative, but did not elaborate on what was holding Afghanistan back.
Several Chinese companies already operate there, including the Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd (MCC) which has held talks with the Taliban administration, as well as the previous Western-backed government, over plans for a potentially huge copper mine.
The Islamic State militant group has targeted foreign embassies and a hotel popular with Chinese investors in Kabul.
Afghanistan and 34 other countries agreed to work together on the digital economy and green development on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum on Wednesday.
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Isn’t the Belt and Road initiative pretty much canceled anyway? It’s been a huge failure because China sucks ass.
How is it a failure? Like half of Africa is indebted to China now.
The failure is that no one is paying those loans back and very little construction has actually happened.
Them not paying the loans back is the point. It’s a feature, not a bug. China saddles African nations with more debt than they can handle, then China basically owns them.
And saying very little construction has actually happened just isn’t true.
Them acting as debt collectors is not the point of the Belt and Road initiative. The point was having countries around the world “on their side”, but no one likes a debt collector, and no one respects a debt collector with no way to enforce collection.
EDIT: If their plan was to saddle countries with debt and hold that over their head (which it wasn’t), it would be a very bad plan. In case of China going to war with this spooky nonexistent ghost they call “the west”, these poor countries could be flipped in an instant by anyone guaranteeing they wouldn’t have to pay said debt.
It’s not the entire fucking plan…
