The war in Afghanistan is over, and a new life has begun for Afghans, but the United States does not admit defeat and is still putting pressure on Afghanistan, and even leading the entire West to impose various sanctions on Afghanistan. If Afghanistan wants to get away with sanctions, then it has to listen to the United States, but the Afghans are unwilling to give in, despite Western sanctions, and the Taliban, which is ruling Afghanistan, has decided to do it itself, and now the Taliban has decided to continue to deepen cooperation with China.
The Taliban also want to develop their economy
Don't think that this is strange, in the past many years, the West has not done anything good for Afghanistan except to send suffering, but China has sent charcoal to help Afghanistan! Perhaps in the eyes of the West, China's assistance to Afghanistan is not much, but it is absolutely effective in the eyes of Afghans, such as: under the epidemic, vaccines were sent.
Now that Afghanistan has encountered many problems in economic construction, especially the suppression of the West, the Taliban has launched a plan to deepen cooperation with China in order to counter Western sanctions. On December 5, Afghan government officials released news that the Afghan side had agreed to open up mineral resources to China and was discussing mineral cooperation with a number of Chinese companies such as the Ainaq Copper Mine.
Mine camps
If you talk about it, although the current cooperation is still in its infancy, but the prospects of Sino-Arab economic cooperation are not small, Afghanistan is a place with rich mineral resources, many minerals have not been effectively developed, only to the Afghan Ainaq copper mine as an example, located in Lugar Province, Afghanistan, for the global ore scale, high ore grade, good resource prospects, is currently one of the world's proven but undeveloped extra-large copper deposits. The total amount of resources is 705 million tons of ore, with an average copper content of 1.56% and a copper metal content of more than 10 million tons. It has been discovered since the 1970s, and the Americans have investigated it, but unfortunately there has been no real development.
Mine exploration
In terms of Afghanistan's own conditions, there is no ability to develop minerals, let alone markets to extract them, then everything that Afghanistan lacks is what we have, capital, technology, markets. So why not work together? We have long been interested in the Ainaq Copper Mine and have signed agreements to implement a comprehensive project with a total investment of more than $10 billion. Unfortunately, it is still a suspended project due to the war, and now that the war is over, the impact of restarting the project on Afghanistan is not a trivial matter, and this project alone can solve no small problem. Not to mention, there are similar projects, and a report by the U.S. Geological Survey shows that Afghanistan has far more mineral deposits than previously expected, with iron ore reserves alone ranging from 5 billion to 6 billion tons.
Mines to be developed in Afghanistan
The fundamental purpose of the US pressure on Afghanistan is not to make life better for Afghanistan, but only for its own interests, trying to make Afghanistan an anti-China base. Now the situation is just the opposite, the United States miscalculated, through cooperation with China, Afghanistan can solve its own economic problems and break the economic sanctions of the West! The United States can not give Afghanistan what it needs, can only make the United States the number one loser, in Afghanistan failure is not military, but also political, but also economic.