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China has copper mines and oil extraction going on there. They have recently been training some of the Afghan military (who are defecting to the Taliban). They have been building the fiber optic network there. And most importantly Afghanistan is necessary to their belt and road initiative; the Sino-Afgan railway is just the beginning.

China has copper mines and oil extraction going on there. They have recently been training some of the Afghan military (who are defecting to the Taliban). They have been building the fiber optic network there. And most importantly Afghanistan is necessary to their belt and road initiative; the Sino-Afgan railway is just the beginning.

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China can have the grave yard of empires.

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It has occurred to me that I need to stop smoking cigarettes so that I may witness China’s collapse within my lifetime.

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Oh boy, I’m calling it: “Afghanistan will be Communist China’s downfall” what ever they do there, the cost will be so high that the CCP will collapse. No matter what the Israelis try to do to prop it up and prevent the failure, it will still happen. There I said it.

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But they bring trade, technology, and advancement when the USA and USSR just brought suppression and death.

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Yes this. They will develop it like we could have developed Mexico. Border states are very important.

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The Mexico question, if you could even call it, continues to interest me. Short answer is Mexico is formal gateway to N. America and S. America is the C_A training ground.