1) Lithium extraction or rare earth minerals extraction can be done by companies backed by both parties they have mentioned Aramco as an example of how US got with Saudia to create a company to in Oil field.
Secondly it is not all tied to Afghanistan but overall world. silicon chips are made in Vietnam and China which is one of the reasons for US to back Vietnam.
2) Economic Race was not subjected to Taliban takeover but it will intensify as US is putting all the money it was spending on Wars to counter BRI.
3) Your hatred for Iran is not new( And I am not a Shia or Iranian supporter before you start on that). So I can understand you blaming Iran. Forgetting that both Iran and Saudis have played their part in supporting their ideologies in Pakistan.
4) India has a limited room true but still they will be the spoilers and can benefit from peace instead of spoiling peace.
Ps: I have updated the list.
1- Mining for dummies: thousands of tons of rocks is processed before a kilo of target mineral is in hands.
Processing rock involve mining the rock, transporting it, grinding it into dirt and if it's not iron than it's followed by chemical process to separate the mineral from dirt, which require billions of liter of water... and than may be you have a mineral in some form, with some degree of purity, which is economically feasible to transport.... but the end hasn't come yet!! all the process water which is now full of chemicals, most likely would have Cyndie in it and all the tons of left over dirt require re-transport to some far place, and than may be you can call it the end.
Now where do we have regular supply of water in Afghanistan?
Where is electricity, which is required to process tons of rocks?
From where all the fuel will come, to run the vehicles which will carry those rocks from mining area to process plant and than on to dumping ground!?
OK, i agree China will come with it's own labor and machines, but they would require to build a state within a state, i.e. an airport, housing, food, medicine, booze, pig farm, place to poo,.. but how long Taliban govt. will sustain, no one knows, yet smallest investment in mining require $2-4-billions,, which probably is not meaning full, or in other words does not justify investing $millons in diplomatic operations and exploration.
Unlike Pakistani officials, i suppose Taliban will not accept bribes, neither they share religion with China that they would consider it holy duty to serve Chinese supreme leader!
Think, US have enough investors, who could have hired Indians and get all the minerals, but simply there's no water, electricity and diesel.
2- you are entitled to your view... but i'm not convinced
3- mind it, getting personal & abusive is an identity mark of mulla proxies in Pakistan, so what is it you don't want to hear the truth or you part of the mafia, who is abettors of mulla proxies in and around Pakistan?
To me they are bunch of murderers and criminals, who have killed millions of humans in the region indiscriminately, and most of the world recon. them as such. if it disturb all of you comrades than stop getting personal.
4- India and Iran will continue to be the spoiling spirits in AF, but hope sense would prevail among Taliban, and they develop capacity to govern their country prudently, about which i'm not very hopeful.
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