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    We've touched upon China's investments in mineral exploitation in Afghanistan and IIRC their security interests - so along comes this rather unusual sign:
    China has signed security and economic agreements with Afghanistan during a rare trip to Kabul by a top Chinese official....Zhou Yongkang, China’s domestic security chief and a member of the ruling Communist Party’s central Politburo, made an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital late on Saturday, holding talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at his garden palace.

    Zhou’s visit was the first to Afghanistan by a senior Chinese leader since 1966 and followed a visit by Karzai to Beijing in June when both countries agreed to cooperate on combating extremism in the region... Zhou signed agreements on increased security and economic cooperation, including a deal to help “train, fund and equip Afghan police.”
    Link:http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other...s_DdcQ.twitter and a slightly different report:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19693005

    I thought we had problems with the archaeologists, no Afghanistan does too:
    Chinese state-owned miner China Metallurgical Group (MCC) operates the $3 billion Aynak copper mine in eastern Logar province, which has been subject to rocket attacks and other raids by insurgent groups looking to disrupt operations. MCC won the contract to develop Aynak in 2008 and it was originally scheduled to begin production in 2013, but work has been delayed by the discovery of a huge and significant archaeological site in the area.
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