A report in India’s News18 on December 23, 2022, published an interesting news: China needs Afghanistan’s lithium and copper mines to dominate the supply chains of components needed to make electric vehicle batteries and smartphones. A week before that news was broken, Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, had visited Kabul to meet with Taliban … Continue reading China Pulls Taliban Out Of Isolation; Beijing Eyes Afghanistan’s Mines To Dominate Smartphone, EV Market?