• Quokka@quokk.au
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        Isn’t like the one good thing the Taliban does is banning the drug manufacturing.

      • scarabic@lemmy.world
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        Yeah I’ve learned a little about China making loans they know will default, which then give them ownership of ports or whatever as a remedy. I think they might be a little over optimistic that these contracts will ever mean anything though. Especially in a place like Afghanistan.

  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That title grammars wrong.

    Edit: The author fucking studied at Oxford, too!

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      Is it? It reads a little awkward, and it’s not how I’d have phrased it, but I think it’s fine

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        It should be “Taliban plans” or “Taliban says it plans”.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping’s huge ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said on Thursday.

    The Pakistan “economic corridor” refers to the huge flagship section of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Afghanistan’s neighbour.

    Azizi said the administration would also send a technical team to China to enable it to “better understand” the issues standing in the way of it joining the initiative, but did not elaborate on what was holding Afghanistan back.

    Several Chinese companies already operate there, including the Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd (MCC) which has held talks with the Taliban administration, as well as the previous Western-backed government, over plans for a potentially huge copper mine.

    The Islamic State militant group has targeted foreign embassies and a hotel popular with Chinese investors in Kabul.

    Afghanistan and 34 other countries agreed to work together on the digital economy and green development on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum on Wednesday.


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