ambassador to Beijing, Bilal Karimi held discussions with the Chinese state-owned company MCC on Mes Aynak

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PARIS( AFP)-The Taleban now holds the keys to an untouched trillion-dollar trove of minerals including some that could power the world's transition to renewable energies, but Afghanistan has long struggled to tap its vast deposits. The Taleban isalready in a financial bind since itreturned to power 20 years after itsouster, as major aid donors halted their support for Afghanistan. Endless wars and poor infrastructure have prevented the country from getting its hands on the metals that could brig

close Video Senator: We need to convince China we can get on offense Sen.... " China believes that Afghanistan should not be excluded from the international community.... Foreign powers such as China, Russia and Iran are scrambling for a share....

China appears to be eyeing to clinch lucrative projects to exploit mineral-rich Afghanistan, especially the trillions of dollars worth of rare-earth metals, as it calibrated its policy to recognise the Taliban government. Rare-earth metals in Afghanistan were estimated to be worth anywhere between USD one trillion to USD three trillion in 2020, a CNBC report this week quoted Ahmad Shah Katawazai, a former diplomat at the Afghan Embassy in Washington. Rare-earth metals are a key component for a h

Open this photo in gallery U.S. forces guide evacuees aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, on Aug.... 24. Senior Airman Taylor Crul/ The Associated PressThe Americans are leaving Afghanistan, quickly.... China’s state-controlled Metallurgical Corp. also hit a dead end....

“ But in reality, I am not clear that I see that many huge upsides for Beijing at the moment.” Like many nations, China is concerned about the risk of terrorism from a Taliban-led Afghanistan.... A more proximate threat may be the spillover of militancy into Pakistan and Central Asia, where China has invested heavily and sought to build alliances.... Chinese officials and state media have been critical of what they call America’s “ hasty ” retreat from Afghanistan....

Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring risk and instability to that backyard--Central Asia--and possibly even spill over their narrow, remote border into China itself and the heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.... But stability will be required to reap most of those benefits, and the immediate result of the American withdrawal has been more instability, not less.... " But in reality, I am not clear that I see that many huge upsides for Beijing at the

It’s not exactly a reprise of the “ Great Game, ” the fierce competition among 19th century empires seeking plunder and power in Central Asia.... But the abrupt end of the American era in Afghanistan has left the country’s neighbors eyeing one another warily, sensing both opportunity and peril.“ There’s a geopolitical scramble going on, ” said Jason Campbell, a RAND Corp. researcher who specializes in international security.... The United States, ending a 20-year effort to subdue the militant