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Can the Belt and Road Initiative Succeed in Afghanistan?
A good question. Here is a taste of the discussion: [Jamestown] INTRODUCTIONAt a trilateral meeting in Islamabad on May 9, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to extend the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan and reaffirmed their support for multilateral infrastructure projects already underway, including the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA) power project and the Trans-Afghan Railways (People’s Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs [FMPRC], May 9). Earlier on January 5, the Taliban  ...mindless ferocity in a turban...regime signed an agreement with the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company (CAPEIC), a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), for the extraction of oil from the Amu Darya basin, under which China will invest $150 million annually for three years and increase it thereafter to $540 million for the contract’s 25-year duration (Kabul Now, January 5). Then on April 13, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum announced that the Chinese company Gochin had expressed interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium reserves (Kabul Now, April 13). Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... Posted by: trailing wife 2023-05-20 |
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