Just finished watching Maria - truly the best of the Sunday shows and unless there is “breaking news “, it will be repeated at 3 p.m. today. If you are doing something else this p.m., DVD it so you don’t miss it. Once the Chinese get the airbase, in addition to its strategic military value, it represents their entrance into their obtaining the extraction rights to mine the rare earth minerals so valuable for use in computer chips needed in cars, computers and TVs, plus use in solar panels to convert sunshine to electricity.
Aug 19 (Reuters) - Returning to power in Afghanistan after a 20-year absence, the Taliban have regained control of natural resources that a former mines minister of the country once said could be worth up to $3 trillion.(probably double that now)
That estimate was made toward the end of the last commodities supercycle in 2010 and could be worth even more now, after a global economic recovery from the coronavirus shock sent prices for everything from copper to lithium soaring this year.
Afghanistan is rich in resources like copper, gold, oil, natural gas, uranium, bauxite, coal, iron ore, rare earths, lithium, chromium, lead, zinc, gemstones, talc, sulphur, travertine, gypsum and marble.
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So biden gave up all this especially the lithium used in batteries big time with no mention of the huge cash crop
the poppies/heroine which when combined with the elephant tranquilizer fentanil from pakiville gives new meaning to a worthless country that Pakistan is “not”