• @scarabic
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    371 year ago

    To transport what? Small dick energy?

    • @salton
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      Removed by mod

      • @scarabic
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        11 year ago

        Yeah I’ve learned a little about China making loans they know will default, which then give them ownership of ports or whatever as a remedy. I think they might be a little over optimistic that these contracts will ever mean anything though. Especially in a place like Afghanistan.

      • Quokka
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        31 year ago

        Isn’t like the one good thing the Taliban does is banning the drug manufacturing.

  • VegaLyrae
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    181 year ago

    Only superpower left who hasn’t tried to invade them at some point in time.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      They will when the Taliban defaults on their debt to them. Then they discover why you don’t invade Afghanistan.

      You get bogged down in tribal wars and spend 20 years worth of time and treasure.

    • Quokka
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      71 year ago

      China has invaded Afghanistan multiple times since the Han Dynasty in the BCs.

    • FLeX
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      21 year ago

      deleted by creator

  • PugJesus
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    121 year ago

    Critical support for our Taliban comrades, clearly /s

  • TWeaK
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    1 year ago

    That title grammars wrong.

    Edit: The author fucking studied at Oxford, too!

    • mars296
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      141 year ago

      I think its almost always the editor that’s charged with creating titles.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Is it? It reads a little awkward, and it’s not how I’d have phrased it, but I think it’s fine

      • TWeaK
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        31 year ago

        It should be “Taliban plans” or “Taliban says it plans”.

        • @paintbucketholder
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          81 year ago

          That’s just an ellipsis to avoid repeating the subject, even if just by using a pronoun, in a headline. It’s completely fine as far as grammar goes, but since we’re not living in the age of the telegraph any more, it arguably wouldn’t hurt if journalists ditched that antiquated format and made headlines more readable.

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s just an ellipsis to avoid repeating the subject, even if just by using a pronoun, in a headline.

            Exactly. Physical headlines had limited space and almost have their own grammar and vocabulary. This is also why you see “slams” and other short words.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    31 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping’s huge ‘Belt and Road’ infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister said on Thursday.

    The Pakistan “economic corridor” refers to the huge flagship section of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Afghanistan’s neighbour.

    Azizi said the administration would also send a technical team to China to enable it to “better understand” the issues standing in the way of it joining the initiative, but did not elaborate on what was holding Afghanistan back.

    Several Chinese companies already operate there, including the Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd (MCC) which has held talks with the Taliban administration, as well as the previous Western-backed government, over plans for a potentially huge copper mine.

    The Islamic State militant group has targeted foreign embassies and a hotel popular with Chinese investors in Kabul.

    Afghanistan and 34 other countries agreed to work together on the digital economy and green development on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum on Wednesday.


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