{"id":4101,"date":"2011-06-22T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2011-06-22T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:09:08","slug":"china-and-the-aynak-copper-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/china-and-the-aynak-copper-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"China and the Aynak copper mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting NBC article from 2009 discussing China&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan, and the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/tag\/copper-mine\/\">Aynak copper mine<\/a> in particular.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to setting up the copper production infrastructure, which includes a smelter, power generation station, coal mine and groundwater system, the Chinese joint venture is also building roads, Afghanistan&#8217;s first national <strong>railway<\/strong>,  new homes for villagers who will be resettled from the immediate area of the mine, hospitals and schools.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/worldblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2009\/10\/14\/4375983-resource-hungry-china-heads-to-afghanistan\">Resource-hungry China heads to Afghanistan<\/a>, Adrienne Mong, NBC News, 2009-10-14<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting NBC article from 2009 discussing China&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan, and the Aynak copper mine in particular. In addition to setting up the copper production infrastructure, which includes a smelter, power generation station, coal mine and groundwater system, the Chinese joint venture is also building roads, Afghanistan&#8217;s first national railway, new homes for villagers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[22,40,45,126],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-aynak","tag-china","tag-copper-mine","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}