{"id":713360,"date":"2021-09-03T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713360"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:51:02","slug":"taliban-china-wants-to-beef-up-relations-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-china-wants-to-beef-up-relations-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban: China Wants To \u2018Beef Up\u2019 Relations With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-china-wants-to-beef-up-relations-with-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234277842.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to the Taliban, China reportedly wants to \u201cbeef up\u201d relations with the extremist group in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/china-to-keep-kabul-embassy-open-and-beef-up-relations-say-taliban\">The Guardian<\/a> reported on Friday, \u201cChina has promised to keep its embassy in Kabul open and \u2018beef up\u2019 relations, the Taliban have said \u2026 A spokesman for the Islamist militia, Suhail Shaheen, said on Friday a senior member of the Taliban\u2019s political office in Qatar had been told by China\u2019s deputy foreign minister that Beijing also aimed to increase humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/07\/21\/china-taliban-afghanistan-biden-troop-withdrawal-belt-road-geopolitics-strategy\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a> noted in July:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10.589424572317\">\n<p><em>Beijing has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/china-has-a-big-plan-for-post-us-afghanistan-and-its-worth-billions\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;been actively engaging with Kabul on construction of the Peshawar-Kabul motorway, which would connect Pakistan to Afghanistan and make Kabul a participant in China\u2019s massive infrastructure and investment plan, the Belt and Road Initiative. \u2026 Beijing is also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/article\/20210701-a-new-road-to-an-inaccessible-land\">building<\/a>&nbsp;a major road through the Wakhan Corridor\u2014a slim strip of mountainous territory connecting China\u2019s westernmost province of Xinjiang to Afghanistan\u2014and onward to Pakistan and Central Asia \u2026 According to a 2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/rare-earth-afghanistan-sits-1-trillion-minerals-n196861\">report<\/a>, Afghanistan may possess nearly a trillion dollars\u2019 worth of extractable rare-earth metals locked within its mountains.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trade-china-rareearth-explainer\/u-s-dependence-on-chinas-rare-earth-trade-war-vulnerability-idUSKCN1TS3AQ\">explained the threat<\/a> of China cornering the market on rare earth minerals in June 2019:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.642172523962\">\n<p><em>Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of consumer products, from iPhones to electric car motors, as well as military jet engines, satellites and lasers. \u2026 China supplied 80% of the rare earths imported by the United States from 2014 to 2017. \u2026 China is home to at least 85% of the world\u2019s capacity to process rare earth ores into material manufacturers can use, according to research firm Adamas Intelligence. \u2026 &nbsp;Companies such as Raytheon Co&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/RTN.N\">RTN.N<\/a>, Lockheed Martin Corp&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/LMT.N\">LMT.N<\/a>&nbsp;and BAE Systems Plc&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/BAES.L\">BAES.L<\/a>&nbsp;all make sophisticated missiles that use rare earths metals in their guidance systems, and sensors.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/17\/the-new-us-plan-to-rival-chinas-dominance-in-rare-earth-metals.html\">CNBC<\/a> admitted in April that \u201cenvironmental pressures at home\u201d had been partly responsible for the U.S. losing its prior dominance of the rare earth minerals market:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8.7809917355372\">\n<p><em>While China is dominant now, in the decades before the 1980s it was the U.S. that held a majority stake in this metals market. That changed as production growth abroad and mounting environmental pressures at home shifted production overseas and also offered cheaper labor costs.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Oct\/05\/2002048904\/-1\/-1\/1\/ASSESSING-AND-STRENGTHENING-THE-MANUFACTURING-AND%20DEFENSE-INDUSTRIAL-BASE-AND-SUPPLY-CHAIN-RESILIENCY.PDF\">According to one 2018 report from the Department of Defense<\/a>, China \u201cstrategically flooded the global market\u201d with rare earths at cheaper prices to drive out and deter current and future competitors.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/taliban-says-it-sees-china-as-a-friend-of-afghanistan-report-2483783\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cChina is a friendly country and we welcome it for reconstruction and developing Afghanistan \u2026 if [the Chinese] have investments, of course we will ensure their safety.\u201d He deflected from the issue of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims in China,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistans-taliban-now-on-chinas-border-seek-to-reassure-beijing-11625750130\">saying<\/a>, \u201cWe care about the oppression of Muslims, be it in Palestine, in Myanmar, or in China, and we care about the oppression of non-Muslims anywhere in the world. But what we are not going to do is interfere in China\u2019s internal affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Taliban, China reportedly wants to \u201cbeef up\u201d relations with the extremist group in Afghanistan.The Guardian reported on Friday, \u201cChina has promised to keep its embassy in Kabul &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}