{"id":134062,"date":"2025-08-06T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134062"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:00:10","slug":"old-fears-dog-china-backed-afghan-copper-mine-as-work-gains-pace-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134062","title":{"rendered":"Old fears dog China-backed Afghan copper mine as work gains pace after 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA China-backed copper mine in Afghanistan is poised to start construction after nearly two decades of delay, but political instability and security issues remain a major concern, an Afghan studies expert has cautioned.<br \/>\nState-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) recently announced that it was making significant progress toward starting copper extraction this year in the Mes Aynak Mine in central Afghanistan\u2019s Logar province, home to one of the world\u2019s largest untouched copper&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3320858\/work-china-backed-afghan-copper-mine-gains-pace-after-17-years-old-fears-linger?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA China-backed copper mine in Afghanistan is poised to start construction after nearly two decades of delay, but political instability and security issues remain&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}