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Why China Wants To Get In On Afghanistan’s Reconstruction
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Why China Wants To Get In On Afghanistan’s Reconstruction

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TOPSHOT – Smoke rises from the site of an attack after a massive explosion the night before near the … [+] Green Village in Kabul on September 3, 2019. – A massive blast in a residential area of Kabul killed at least 16 people, officials said on September 3, yet another Taliban attack that came as the insurgents and Washington try to finalise a peace deal. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

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China is already eyeing up Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth, using the excuse of wanting to help rebuild the worn torn country now primarily ruled by the Taliban.

In fact, the American’s hadn’t even left Afghanistan before China’s diplomats showed up to ‘help,’ states a recent report from U.S. Global Investors. The report explains as follows:

  • “Mere hours after the Taliban completed its swift takeover of Afghanistan, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said that Beijing was ready to participate in ‘Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development.’”

Who can blame China. There’s a lot of money to be made.

“The combined value of [Afghanistan’] minerals is estimated at between $1 trillion and $3 trillion. By comparison, opium poppy production in the country was valued at only $350 million in 2020,” the report states.

Put another way, the mineral resources under the ground in Afghanistan could be worth almost 10 times the country’s infamous opium crop.

These minerals include lithium, gold, silver, platinum, iron, copper aluminum and uranium. Among those lithium stands out as a real prize because it has become essential to the manufacture of the lithium ion batteries used in electric vehicles.

Better still for China, if it gets its way, is that Afghanistan is set to be the Saudi Arabia of Afghanistan. In other words, the central Asian country is reputedly home to heaps of lithium. As the largest car market in the world, and the global move to EVs, China will likely want to secure every last pound of lithium that it can.

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Gaining access to the lithium deposits plus all the other minerals would help further secure China’s global dominance in critical materials. Already, China has a more than dominant position in rare earth elements, many of which are used in cell phones and defense equipment, another U.S. Global Investors report states.

Will Afghanistan’s resource wealth make life better for Afghanis? Likely not. As U.S. Global points out — the resource curse is against them. This is a situation where the seeming blessing of having mineral resources doesn’t make countries rich. Instead, it makes them poorer on a per capita basis.

For instance, Saudi Arabia has a middle income GDP, as does Nigeria, Brazil, Iraq and many of the other oil rich countries. Only one country has ever gotten rich off the back of oil or other minerals: Norway.

Because of this dark minerals history it looks likely that Afghanistan’s minerals will not help ease the grinding poverty of the war torn country.

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