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On June 28, 2021 the deal between CATL and Tesla Motors was announced; the [[AP]] reported that just four days later, the US left Bagram airfield at night without telling the new Afghan National Army commander.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-troops-f3614828364f567593251aaaa167e623</ref>
On June 28, 2021 the deal between CATL and Tesla Motors was announced; the [[AP]] reported that just four days later, the US left Bagram airfield at night without telling the new Afghan National Army commander.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-troops-f3614828364f567593251aaaa167e623</ref>
[[BHR]] was formed when Bohai Capital (a Chinese-government-linked firm) merged with [[Rosemont Seneca Partners]] (company formed by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, [[John Kerry]]’s stepson). As of August 30, 2021, one of the companies in BHR’s portfolio is Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), founded in 2011.<ref>https://tracxn.com/d/private-equity/bhr/AqYaQZwpCM9_bWngRtAEWb3D0qIHitqyE0ObxZ649Ig</ref> CATL is the “world’s largest maker of electric vehicle batteries.”<ref>https://archive.is/wzhmr</ref> According to the Chinese state media ''Global Times'', CATL is even contracted to supply lithium-ion batteries to [[Tesla Motors]].<ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227312.shtml#:~:text=China%20is%20the%20largest%20manufacturer,%2C%20BMW%2C%20Volkswagen%20and%20Geely.</ref>
China dominates the world’s production of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and most portable consumer electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops. China accounts for 80 percent of the world’s total output of raw materials for advanced batteries.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/silicon-valley-technology/how-china-dominates-global-battery-supply-chain</ref> If Biden implements his “clean energy” plans, the United States will become dependent on China to produce the batteries that power America’s technologies.<ref>https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2020/09/bidens-green-dream-made-in-china/</ref> The largest manufacturer of electric vehicle batteries with a 27.9 percent market share is China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited. (CATL). Since Biden's green agenda came to the fore in November 2020, and the August 31, 2021 Fall of Kabul, CATL's stock price tripled.<ref>https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa189b059-c867-4a68-a7f8-d6e04dd23558_712x514.jpeg</ref> On August 28, 2021 ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine reported,
{{quotebox-float|"the mineral resources under the ground in Afghanistan could be worth almost 10 times the country’s infamous [[opium]] crop.
These minerals include [[lithium]], gold, silver, platinum, iron, copper aluminum and uranium. Among those lithium stands out as a real prize because it has become essential to the manufacture of the lithium ion batteries used in electric vehicles.
Better still for China, if it gets its way, is that Afghanistan is set to be the Saudi Arabia of Afghanistan. In other words, the central Asian country is reputedly home to heaps of lithium. As the largest car market in the world, and the global move to EVs, China will likely want to secure every last pound of lithium that it can."<ref>https://archive.is/wip/y95my</ref>}}
Before the dust even settled over Afghanistan, [[CNBC]] reported China was already in talks with the Taliban to exploit Afghanistan's rare earth metals.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/taliban-in-afghanistan-china-may-exploit-rare-earth-metals-analyst-says.html</ref> The [[Biden family]] is set to personally benefit from China gaining access to Afghanistan’s rare earth elements.
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