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Also from the NY Times:

China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce

James R. Yeager/Associated Press

A delegation from the state-owned Chinese company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation, visited the site of a copper mine in Aynak, a former al-Qaeda stronghold southeast of Kabul, in 2007.

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No doubt they`ll get the rights to like the way they locked up all the rights to rare earth everywhere.