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China Has a BIG Plan for Post-U.S. Afghanistan—and It’s Worth Billions
yahoo news ^
| July 4, 2021
| Syed Fazl-e-Haider
Posted on 08/15/2021 4:51:52 PM PDT by BusterDog
China is poised to make an exclusive entry into post-U.S. Afghanistan with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source close to government officials in Afghanistan told The Daily Beast that Kabul authorities are growing more intensively engaged with China on an extension of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)—the flagship project of BRI, which involves the construction of highways, railways and energy pipelines between Pakistan and China—to Afghanistan.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; baluchistan; beltandroad; bidenforeignpolicy; bri; california; china; cpec; deathofthewest; debttrap; nancypelosi; obor; onebeltoneroad; pakistan; taliban; waronterror
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:51:52 PM PDT
by
BusterDog
China will attempt to create settlements like it has in Canada and soon Texas.
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:54:28 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: BusterDog
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:54:52 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
To: BusterDog
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source close to government officials in Afghanistan told The Daily Beast that Kabul authorities are growing more intensively engaged with China.....
Reads like something that’s been in the works, for quite some time.
Amazing how Yahoo and Daily Beast got the scoop.
🤔
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:55:16 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
To: BusterDog
Everyone has had a brilliant plan for Afghanistan. How well have they worked out so far?
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:55:19 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: BusterDog
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:55:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BusterDog
Poppies galore... They need someway to get the opium to market...
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:55:38 PM PDT
by
unread
(Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
To: BusterDog
this is close to the best news I’ve heard all day.
I was feeling a bit down.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
To: BusterDog
Biden is giving Afghanistan to China.
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:57:49 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: dfwgator
China should look at the last 40 years of Russian and US occupation. And see how well that worked out.
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:57:59 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
To: rbg81
“Everyone has had a brilliant plan for Afghanistan. How well have they worked out so far?”
*****
I think the CCP’s motives and interests will be different from all the previous powers.
It’s like two international criminal syndicates working together.
To: All
To: Responsibility2nd
Well, it’s their backyard, not ours, we’ve got our own Hemisphere to take care of.
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:59:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BusterDog
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posted on
08/15/2021 4:59:42 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: BusterDog
How is China going to buffer the old skool Islam of the talleybunnies?.
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posted on
08/15/2021 5:01:13 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: unread
To: Paladin2
“How is China going to buffer the old skool Islam of the talleybunnies?.”
They don’t care.
To: Paladin2
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posted on
08/15/2021 5:03:48 PM PDT
by
Wayne07
To: Paladin2
I think it’s called organ harvesting.
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posted on
08/15/2021 5:04:06 PM PDT
by
beancounter13
(A Republic, if you can keep it.)
To: JonPreston
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