https://sputnikglobe.com/20210817/ranking-us-congressman-says-china-will-move-in-afghanistan-to-mine-rare-earth-minerals-1083642447.html
Ranking US Congressman Says China Will Move in Afghanistan to Mine Rare Earth Minerals
Ranking US Congressman Says China Will Move in Afghanistan to Mine Rare Earth Minerals
Sputnik International
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - China is going to move to Afghanistan to mine that country’s rare earth minerals following the US withdrawal, Ranking Republican on the... 17.08.2021, Sputnik International
2021-08-17T22:53+0000
2021-08-17T22:53+0000
2022-08-06T13:22+0000
world
newsfeed
us
middle east
asia
china
afghanistan
republicans
michael mccaul
https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e5/08/11/1083642544_0:1:2811:1582_1920x0_80_0_0_2106a699c1da7592b22ea8eb75b07b6d.jpg
“China will be moving in. There are rare earth minerals in [Afghanistan]. I don’t know why we didn’t work with the Afghans to develop that, but we never did,” McCaul said on Tuesday. “And now, you’re going to have China going in mining these rare earth minerals.""[T]he Taliban* will have a huge windfall profit from this that they’ll put into terrorist financing,” he added.In 2017, former US President Donald Trump met with then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani agreed there were opportunities for US companies to rapidly develop Afghanistan’s rare-earth minerals as a way to offset the costs of the war there.After a weeks-long offensive upon large cities, launched after the start of foreign troop withdrawal, the Taliban took over Afghanistan and its capital on Sunday, prompting President Ashraf Ghani to resign and flee. The militants declared the two-decade war to be over.*A terrorist organization banned in Russia
china
afghanistan
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
2021
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
News
en_EN
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
Sputnik International
feedback@sputniknews.com
+74956456601
MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“
newsfeed, us, middle east, china, afghanistan, republicans, michael mccaul
newsfeed, us, middle east, china, afghanistan, republicans, michael mccaul
Ranking US Congressman Says China Will Move in Afghanistan to Mine Rare Earth Minerals
22:53 GMT 17.08.2021 (Updated: 13:22 GMT 06.08.2022) WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - China is going to move to Afghanistan to mine that country’s rare earth minerals following the US withdrawal, Ranking Republican on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul said in an interview with the Washington Post.
“China
will be moving in. There are rare earth minerals in [Afghanistan]. I don’t know why we didn’t work with the Afghans to develop that, but we never did,” McCaul said on Tuesday. “And now, you’re going to have China going in mining these rare earth minerals."
McCaul said that as a result, China is the winner and the United States the loser in this situation as are the Afghan people.
"[T]he Taliban* will have a huge windfall profit from this that they’ll put into terrorist financing,” he added.
In 2017, former US President Donald Trump met with then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani agreed there were opportunities for US companies to rapidly develop Afghanistan’s rare-earth minerals as a way to offset the costs of the war there.
However, a report written by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in August of 2018 said those ambitions failed to materialize as the US "extractive sector programming" stayed relatively minimal.
After a weeks-long offensive upon large cities, launched after the start of foreign troop withdrawal, the Taliban took over Afghanistan and its capital on Sunday, prompting President Ashraf Ghani to
resign and flee. The militants declared the two-decade war to be over.
*A terrorist organization banned in Russia
