Posted on 04/18/2021 1:53:58 PM PDT by kaehurowing
Beijing may consider sending a peacekeeping force to Afghanistan if the security situation in the South Asian country poses a threat to the neighbouring Chinese province of Xinjiang after American troops pull out, analysts said.
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he would withdraw all remaining US troops – about 2,500 – from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack in New York.
The withdrawal may pose a threat to Afghanistan’s security and stability, which could spill over into Xinjiang and disrupt China’s counterterrorism efforts.
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They’ll take control of the poppy fields and start shipping to their narco terrorist buddies in Mexico and elsewhere.
LOL!
OMG
Agree with others, they will help the mooselimbs move the poppy, and, China wants control of all of the metals and rare earth metals there.
Yes, please do cause I want to see how the Chinese are going to do what countless others in history could not......
Millions of Han “immigrants.”
I believe the Chicoms do control the minerals as of a few years ago. Contract. I say let them have it.
That will go well for them. /s
The Taliban already provide protection for the opium trade.
Or undeveloped mineral resources. What was the ore discovery in Afghanistan reported several years ago? Rare earths?
China remembers. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Let China send a military force into Afghanistan, they will get bogged down just the US and Russia did, unless they are prepared to kill everything in sight, China will lose a ton of soldiers, who have no real experience dealing with people in that terrain who have been fighting for literally decades....
In fact the USA will probably switch sides immediately and send weapons to the Taliban to fight China, just like they did to the Mujahedeen who fought the Russians...
The Afghanis are notoriously hard to conquer. But Afghanistan can be conquered. The Mongols and Tamerlane did it.
Others failed in Afghanistan because they were unwilling to commit total genocide. I think the Chinese are willing, and are apt to make their move while Biden is still President.
The Talliwhackers wil show them piece.
If they want that god-forsaken place, they can have it, ditto for the Russians.
The Chinese will meet the same fate as the Russians and the Americans. The Chinese are also moving into Africa. They are going to have many problems in the future. If they think they can control the populace in these backward countries, they are in for a rude awakening.
Of course. Look what they are doing to the Uighurs.
If China goes in, for one they will not have out moral restraints and will have no problems wiping out taliban loyalists if they become a problem and they have the near endless bodies plus a state controlled media to do it. Also the rest of the world will look the other way and not interfere probably.
Unless . . .
My guess is that Afghanistan is actually a good piece of real estate to own — IF you are willing to kill huge numbers of people and ruthlessly subdue the population. We never did that. Even Russia didn’t do that. I bet China will. No guarantee that it is possible. But if you do it the old-fashioned way, I bet things calm down.
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