Banned in China!

A good friend just let me know that for some odd reason my blog was banned inside China. Odd, I've not got the best opinions about the place, but I figured if that was the case, I needed to give them the justification for such esteemed consideration.

Here in Afghanistan, the Chinese have purchased rights to a massive copper mine "Anyak". Along with the mine, of course, they are going to set up a coal fired electrical plant. Coal, yes, forward leaning, no?

On top of that, they agreed in principal to hire thousands of Afghans. Nice gesture, no? No-one has this on paper. All we have to do is to look to the mines in Africa and see China's version of neo-colonialism. They agree to "benefit" a country, with agreement from the government of course and build a road to the mine, sometimes rehab a port, and then after initial agreements, shift quite rapidly into hiring hundreds if not thousands of chinese in similar extractive industries. I have no doubt that the same will happen here in Afghanistan.

No worries, your tax dollars are helping provide the security for them as they put things in motion to scrape billions in profit from the country. An interesting development as they help stabilize our economy to allow us to spend money to bolster our military in operations to provide the security. Soon, the US will learn that China has become the belligerant economic power across the world as we have seen surface throughout history during the rise of great powers. This one works out well as it guarantees access to copper...and on top of that, will net them $88 Billion!

Peace...