Posted on 08/16/2021 7:28:07 PM PDT by JosephW
Is Afghanistan a gift to China?
As China begins to build more electric cars they are facing a problem with rare earth elements. They can pull some from Africa, but the optics are terrible and child labour is the norm.
Australia is in an economic war with China and much of what they need to compete is denied them. Tesla has the advantage of resources, but BYD and MG want to successfully enter this market. To be successful, China would have to kowtow to Australia - something they have decided not to do.
Enter "China Joe". The deals his son made for the 'big man' may be haunting us now. How indebted is Biden and family? Would they go so far as to sell out our allies, and destroy 20 years of effort to protect his presidency and income stream?
As the U.S. pulls out and leaves the world devastated, China is already cuddling up to the Taliban. They need what they have and won't treat them like the Uighur for at least a little while.
A quick summary: U.S. pulled out too quick and left everything behind Australia sidelined and put under increased economic problems China gains rare earth elements for EV's Hostages left in place (a new Ted Koppel will get to count the days and deaths) Afghan allies left to die U.S. and allied auto makers put at a disadvantage Tesla disadvantaged (he wasn't invited to the White House) Unknown gain for Biden
Why not. China won’t care what kind of government they have, or how many women or fags they have in their government. Why wouldn’t Afghanis prefer China?
The opportunity is based on a hoax. Electric cars are only necessary because of the Climate Change hoax. We have plenty of fossil fuels for a very long time. One hoax after another.
Exactly, we’ll stick to fossil fuels, and they can stick their “Rare Earth Metals” where the sun don’t shine.
Who cares? Stoopid post. Let them have it. Losing Viet Nam hurt the neocons-so what?
I don’t care about Afghanistan. I do care about our people (especially our troops still there). I care about our allies. I do not want to aid the enemies of the free world.
There are many losers:
The U.S. people
Our allies
Those that already gave life and limb
Our future
There are also winners out of this:
China
Islam
Joe Biden’s bank account
That is exactly what I am thinking. CCP has bought and paid for Biden to deliver and he will. Taiwan is next up. Watch for it.
To answer the question in your first sentence, yes.
How do you think the Taliban advanced so rapidly? How did they get intelligence about the Afghan government to do so? Speaking of that, they probably had a lot of intelligence about the US as well.
It is likely many of our corporate and government higher-ups are compromised by China. That or as quite a number of CEOs have remarked, they admire the Chinese system (i.e. they want it here).
China is building a mid-Asian empire of vassal states and we have a senile old man as leader. He should be in a nursing home, not the White House.
This is a great program job done on the Afghan fiasco. Steve does not hold back his anger.
Watch The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton: Season 2, Episode 33, “Sunday, August 15” Online - FOX
https://www.fox.com/watch/e549b019d690a5a621475a4fcd08481d/
I was already thinking that.
China had the market cornered already fir Rare Earth metals. Only Afghanistan has known deposits that can rival them.
On the link, you may need to swipe bar back to beginning.
If the Biden Regime spent less time figuring out how to attack Americans and to put them in jail for talking and more time on foreign affairs they might have seen their defeat at the hands of the primitive Taliban in Afghanistan.
Joe Biden and his cabinet need to resign.
You may be right, but I kinda sorta disagree. I think whom ever is pulling the strings wanted to secure the base, while sticking Trump in the eye with a sharp stick and gain a big propaganda advantage well before the midterms. While they have damn near perfected “The Big Cheat”, they know we are aware now and it will be harder in 2022. So an early propaganda coup they can build on makes sense to me.
Only problem is, the Taliban did not cooperate. That and from what I have read and heard today, Slow Joe lived down to his reputation and forgot to confer with Great Briton & Australia, the only two allies left and they were both caught flat footed. Now they are pissed and it is showing up on their news, even BBC & ABC(Aus).
It really doens’t matter though, because China wins in any case.
Bkmk
Biden Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of China…
Rare earths are not rare, they’re difficult and expensive to extract and refine. Where are the rare earth plants after all the years OF US presence? The Taliban doesn’t know squat about mining and can’t even keep the power on. If China wants to waste money trying to deal with those thugs they will have forgotten the $3 billion disaster copper venture in 2007 that produced nothing, largely because of a lack of infrastructure. And it was in better shape then than now. And if one Taliban leader thinks he can make a deal there’s another chieftain who will put a bullet in his brain tomorrow.
The rails were greased for the Taliban, by Joe or someone acting in his name.
Reportedly we snuck out of Bagram with no notice to Afghan military. In the past weeks the Afghan military has lost US air support, intel, backup, etc. All this while the Taliban are backed by the CCP. Destroyed whatever trust any of the Afghanis harbored and made it clear they were being discarded.
They should have fought anyway, but they’re tribesmen first and patriots somewhere way down the list.
9 Aug: Business Standard India: IANS: China’s bonhomie with Taliban: Keeping terrorism on the back burner?
Chinas ties with the Taliban, which has so far refused to de-link itself from terrorist groups like the Al Qaeda, flies in the face of its claims to be part of the global counter-terrorism movement
The questionable development has its roots in the recent meeting in Tianjin, China between top Chinese officials and a delegation of the Taliban. The state media showed China’s foreign minister Wang Yi greeting deputy leader of Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Wang posed for photographs with all the nine members of the Taliban delegation...
The meeting with Wang is the biggest coup for the Taliban leadership. They told him everything that he and President Xi Jinping wanted to hear: That they respect China, they are happy to invite Chinese investments in Afghanistan, they would look for a peaceful resolution of the Afghan situation once they acquire control, that they would not allow terrorist groups inimical to China to seek bases in Afghanistan...
China’s usual hullabaloo about Islamist terrorists slipping into Xinjiang and provoking unrest among the Uyghur Muslims flies in the face of two things. One, China and Afghanistan share a short border of 47 kilometres at the end of an inaccessible, mountainous region called the Wakhan Corridor. Such is the security presence and surveillance in Xinjiang that no Uyghur can move unnoticed, let alone plan an insurrection. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement that China declares as a terrorist organisation is no longer in the terrorist list of the United States. China used the presence of this organisation to justify the detention of over a million Uyghurs in so-called re-education camps...
Last but not the least, China would want to protect its current investments in Afghanistan, worth billions of dollars, mostly to develop the Aynak copper mine. It may have its sights also on billions worth rare-earth metals that sit deep within the Afghan mountains...
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-s-bonhomie-with-taliban-keeping-terrorism-on-the-back-burner-121080900765_1.html
the good thing is....We’ll never run out of “Rare Earth Metals”....../s
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