China to offer Taliban tariff-free trade as it inches closer to isolated resource-rich regime | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-offer-taliban-tariff-free-trade-inches-closer-isolated-resource-rich-2024-10-25/
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cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
You ever wonder if there's a way everyone could get paired up in 1 of 2 teams (decadent West, BRICS+) and we could all find a way to...you know, get along?
rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com · 3 pts · 1y
Whoa John Lennon, that would require respect and sharing.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Sticking your economy in crazy seems like a bad idea China.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
Probably a better idea to invade, spend a trillion dollars occupying it for 20 years and then leave, having accomplished nothing.
LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Worse than nothing. The Taliban gained more territory. The Northern Alliance is mostly gone.
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Soon to be The People's Holsum Brutal Totalitarian Theocracy 😊
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They waited while Russia and the US tried to control Afghanistan and lost. I suppose we'll see if china will fare better.
jonne@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 1y
They're not trying to invade. Just offering to trade, so the Taliban doesn't have to be afraid about losing control.
dariusj18@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
In an Islamist government, making a nation, who is openly hostile to their Muslim population, a major trader partner may not play well.
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Nah, theocracies don't give a fuck about hypocrisy.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
It's worked in the Arabian peninsula, why wouldn't it work in Afghanistan?
MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
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