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Originally Posted by wehateporn
A complete cock up indeed, China were never meant to get their hands on this. If China get a contract we're told it's bribes and corruption, then ministers are replaced with ones who will give future contracts to Western firms. Chinese firms are clearly unacceptable buyers
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The mineral deposits weren't discovered until 2007, though, We invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Here's another quote from that same article:
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In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
During the chaos of the 1990s, when Afghanistan was mired in civil war and later ruled by the Taliban, a small group of Afghan geologists protected the charts by taking them home, and returned them to the Geological Survey?s library only after the American invasion and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.
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