the FR has become home to so many China toadies it’s disgusting. Afghanistan will chew the CCP up like it has every other power. Just give it time.
China could provide jobs in their new mines. Hell, they could ship the Uyghurs there.
Probably true. But I would but that China will last longer in Afghanistan than the Americans, the Russians, or the British did.
They will probably strip mine the place of any valuable minerals and abandon it when their is nothing left to take away.
China isn't going into Afghanistan as an Enemy, they are going in as a Friend and Partner.
They value Human Life exactly the same as the Taliban do, as in they don't value it at all.
The Taliban will become China's version of Friends with Benefits. China won't be criticizing the Taliban for anything they will do, Beheadings, torture and subjugation of Women will go on without one word of condemnation from the Chinese.
China will say: "We have money and skill, you have the muscle - Let us form a partnership to run this mine, mill, or business, and we will both benefit." The Taliban 2.0 want this and China will be very cautious about every single project.
If China starts to get into regime-change or cultural supremacy (think gay pride or feminism) then yes, they will get eaten-up.