Afghanistan: China and India Wrestle over Afghanistan's Mineral Resources

Aug 1, 2021 | Florence Jenikns, Germany Eye
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The promising, threatening and haggling have begun. Americans and Europeans have packed their weapons and left, and now ministers and diplomats from neighboring countries are scrambling to expand their influence in Afghanistan. America's Secretary of State Antony Blinken is using his inaugural visit to New Delhi to counter Beijing's advance there. With Afghanistan in India's west and Myanmar in its east, there are currently two major unknowns on the Indian Ocean that could be interesting partners in geoeconomic terms.