Debt Rattle July 11 2021

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I Google translated the prof Gazit story since I couldn’t find an English version.

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Dr D posted: It has been suggested this was done so Joe could sell Afghanistan to China, or in this case, that they get the multi-billion$ contracts to rebuild it. Makes more sense than otherwise, why not?

Remember all those super-wondrous precious metals in Afgh post 9/11? (Like, invading to take them, why not…)

Well, most of the foreign cos. active there in extraction – + long term projects – are Chinese. (I have no good link to attest to this, as the collation isn’t done.) (Telecoms and so on is another story.)

Brookings in 2013: https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-buys-into-afghanistan/

German think-tank, 2018, long report:

https://www.dropsafghanistan.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Integrating-Afghanistan-into-the-Belt-and-Road-Initiative.pdf

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