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Originally Posted by mapuc
I thought that Chinas interest in Afghanistan was purely civilian and not military.
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Thjeir intrest is economical, and they will use money, bribery, making Afghjnaistan dependent and maybe even spoars emilitary means to secure those eoch9mic interests. Afghanistan sits on trillions of rare earth, moinerals, resources.
China wants it all. To use it itself. To prevent an economic rival (rare earths), and preventing others form having these earths (so that they depend on China selling them). For their Silkroad 2.0 project.
They also want to keep an eye on Islam, because in China they supress over six dozen cultural and ethnical minorities. The spirit of uprise should be kept far, far away. They can see in Africa, Europe, America, how bad it is with Islam, thats why they crack down so hard on the Uighurs, too.