Taiwan has to be wondering what the hell just happened, the CCP might see a crack developing in the US resolve.
Afghanistan purportedly has mineral resources. China, reportedly
controls 90% of the rare earth mineral trade. The article notes: "
The U.S. is dependent on China for rare earth minerals used in hundreds of hi-tech products and military equipment." This presents a significant national security issue for the US.
Now for the tin-hat conspiracy angle.
Hunter Biden (who has yet to be criminally charged for his alleged transgressions) and the the President, Joe Biden have apparently had a very close financial relationship with China. Additionally, there is the strange case of Hillary Clinton "
selling" certain Uranium reserves to Russia. Having a close financial association with a foreign government while a US government official is not direct proof of any wrong doing, but it does raise the specter of conflict-of-interest and insider deal making. Both wrong, if proven.
Digging a bit deeper into the tin-hat conspiracy angle: Why did Afghanistan fall so quickly to the Taliban? Was the fix in for Afghanistan to fall?
The US has had a history of clandestine actions to manipulate world and even national events. A recent example includes the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Tucker Carlson on his show speculated that the so-called
riot rally of January 6, 2021 was "
facilitated" by FBI informants. Finally, the involvement of US agencies in the promoting the hoax Russiagate. Again, none of these events, in themselves, validates that a "
fix was in" for Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban. But then prior covert actions do create an opportunity to interprete a current event as having been purposely manipulated.
I speculate, by listening (actually silence and reading between the lines) to the news released by the Biden administration, that there was no intent to keep the Afghan government "
alive" after the the US withdrawal. The "
smoking-gun" remarks are to the effect that this "
happened faster than expected." The US withdrawl then became a chaotic immediate disorganized emergency. The remarks that it "
happened faster than expected" have not received the scrutiny that they deserve. Did Biden, after he became President, negotiate a new (secret) deal with the Taliban to give them a "
quick" victory, which they executed even faster than expected?