{"id":116099,"date":"2021-08-03T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116099"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:24:36","slug":"and-in-todays-news-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116099","title":{"rendered":"And In Today’s News, China…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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China\u2019s ambassador is cozying up to the Taliban. Not that it\u2019s some big surprise.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/29\/china\/china-taliban-tianjin-afghanistan-intl-hnk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 During a meeting with Taliban’s co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who heads the group’s political committee, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the Taliban as an important military and political force in Afghanistan, and said he expected the Taliban to play an important role in the country’s “peace, reconciliation and reconstruction process,” according to China’s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

Following the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban has rapidly expanded its presence — and now controls large swathes of country. The speed at which Afghan security forces have lost control to the Taliban has shocked many, and led to concerns the capital Kabul could be next to fall. All foreign forces are expected to leave Afghanistan by August 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s meeting, which was also attended by the heads of the Taliban’s religious and publicity committees, is the latest move by the Chinese government to strengthen its relationship<\/a> with the Islamist group. – article<\/p>\n

How very clever of Xi JinPing to send in someone who can convince the head of the Taliban that it\u2019s all about being good neighbors, when in fact, what China wants is Afghanistan\u2019s mineral wealth. All those rare earths measured some time back by the USGS (about 20 years ago) are what go into your laptop, phone, pocket computer, household burglar alert, vehicle, and other such junk. It\u2019s quite clever of Xi Jinping to negotiate with a poisonous snake like the Taliban. He\u2019s also hinted at expanding the relationship with Pakistan through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (part of the Belt and Road process) into Afghanistan. Won\u2019t be long before the heavy machinery \u2013 those gigantic mining machines, for instance \u2013 are brought in to flatten the landscape. I give it 6 months, tops, before China starts on its real mission.<\/p>\n

Cue Credence Clearwater Revival and Bad Moon Rising:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s ambassador is cozying up to the Taliban. Not that it\u2019s some big surprise. https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/29\/china\/china-taliban-tianjin-afghanistan-intl-hnk\/index.html From … And In Today’s News, China….<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116100,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116099\/revisions\/116100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}