China is mining copper in Afghanistan... Why does that sound totally effed up?
Yes, that’s what really piqued my curiosity - and then got me really angered. We dump billions of dollars every year into the pile of rock, opium and bandits - and the *CHINESE* get lucrative contracts to mine copper?
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
I can see why it’s being called “The Chinese Century.” They’ve hollowed out American businesses by undercutting them, sold us billions of dollars worth of cheap crap that break after two years, own us lock, stock and barrel now, use our trade imbalance to dominate industries that we have abandoned, and now get lucrative contracts for raw materials in the country that WE are paying to keep stable?
Everything about this picture is wrong. And we’ve been developing it for 15 years.