{"id":49481,"date":"2009-12-30T02:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=49481"},"modified":"2013-05-28T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T22:06:21","slug":"china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/30\/world\/asia\/30mine.html?_r=1&#038;ref=global-home\">The New York Times reports <\/a>on China&#8217;s efforts to extract copper from Afghan mines, &#8220;by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTwo years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion \u2014 $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan \u2014 for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Aynak. Over the next 25 years, it plans to extract about 11 million tons of copper \u2014 an amount equal to one-third of all the known copper reserves in China.<\/p>\n<p>While the United States spends hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda here, China is securing raw material for its voracious economy. The world\u2019s superpower is focused on security. Its fastest rising competitor concentrates on commerce.<\/p>\n<p>S. Frederick Starr, the chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, an independent research organization in Washington, said that skeptics might wonder whether Washington and NATO had conducted \u201can unacknowledged preparatory phase for the Chinese economic penetration of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do the heavy lifting,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd they pick the fruit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on China&#8217;s efforts to extract copper from Afghan mines, &#8220;by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan&#8221;: Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion \u2014 $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2],"tags":[5872,2476,16149,1037],"class_list":["post-49481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","tag-afghanistan","tag-copper","tag-mes-aynak","tag-natural-resources","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York Times reports on China&#8217;s efforts to extract copper from Afghan mines, &#8220;by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan&#8221;: Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion \u2014 $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-30T09:02:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-05-28T22:06:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"China Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-30T09:02:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-28T22:06:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/12\/china-willing-to-spend-big-on-afghan-commerce\/\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Afghanistan\",\"copper\",\"mes aynak\",\"natural resources\"],\"articleSection\":[\"China &amp; 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