{"id":40637,"date":"2022-03-28T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40637"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:12:09","slug":"taliban-guards-afghanistans-once-hated-buddhas-as-it-waits-for-china-to-turn-giant-copper-deposit-into-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40637","title":{"rendered":"Taliban guards Afghanistan\u2019s once-hated Buddhas as it waits for China to turn giant copper deposit into cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of metres below lies what is believed to be the world\u2019s largest deposit of copper.Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban rulers are pinning their hopes on Beijing to turn that rich vein into revenue to salvage the cash-starved country amid crippling international sanctions.The fighters standing guard by the rocky hillside may once have considered destroying the terracotta Buddhas. Two\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3172122\/taliban-guards-afghanistans-once-hated-buddhas-it-waits-china-turn-giant?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 PostThe ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of metres below lies&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40638,"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\/40637"}],"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=40637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}