{"id":382,"date":"2008-09-10T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2008-09-10T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:00:40","slug":"chinas-role-in-afghan-copper-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/chinas-role-in-afghan-copper-project\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s role in Afghan copper project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/justworldnews.org\/archives\/003070.html\">&#8216;Just World News&#8217;<\/a>, journalist Helena Cobban writes about China&#8217;s role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/departments\/insight\/articles\/pp060308f.shtml\" title=\"China: Afghan investment reveals larger strategy\">Aynak copper mine project<\/a>. The plans include a rail link to China.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>China buys in to Iraqi, Afghan end-games<\/h3>\n<p>Posted by Helena Cobban at August 30, 2008 01:35 PM<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the Chinese really are also going to build a rail line that comes from western China, through Tajikstan, down through Afghanistan (including Aynak,) and through Pakistan to Karachi, then that is extremely significant.<\/p>\n<p>I think the China-Tajikstan connector is already underway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the whole project, when completed, will have huge benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> for China, in its continuing drive to bring economic development to its far-west regions,\n<\/li>\n<li>for Tajikstan and the other landlocked former-Soviet Stans, who have pretty good Soviet-era railway systems&#8211; but so far, most of them connect to the outside world only through Russia. This new connector would give them new outlets, to both China and the Arabian Sea.\n<\/li>\n<li>for Pakistan, which gets access to a whole new hinterland and trading bloc there in Stanistan, and finally&#8211;\n<\/li>\n<li>for Afghanistan, which gets its first ever long distance rail line&#8211; and one that connects, moreover, to such a lot of other interesting and potentially lucrative places. It also thereby gets a way to start exporting not just the massive amounts of copper said to exist in Aynak but all the rest of its currently barely scratched-at wealth of mineral resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Win-win-win all round, I&#8217;d say. And not just because I&#8217;m a committed ferrophile.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/justworldnews.org\/archives\/003070.html\">&#8216;Just World News&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Just World News&#8217;, journalist Helena Cobban writes about China&#8217;s role in the Aynak copper mine project. The plans include a rail link to China. China buys in to Iraqi, Afghan end-games Posted by Helena Cobban at August 30, 2008 01:35 PM &#8230; If the Chinese really are also going to build a rail line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,40,45,165],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-aynak","tag-china","tag-copper-mine","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}