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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.
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>}}
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 [electric vehicles], China will likely want to secure every last pound of lithium that it can."<ref>https://archive.is/wip/y95my</ref>}}
According to the Chinese state media ''Global Times'', on June 28, 2021 a deal between CATL and [[Tesla Motors]] was announced;<ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227312.shtml#:~:text=China%20is%20the%20largest%20manufacturer,%2C%20BMW%2C%20Volkswagen%20and%20Geely.</ref> four days later the [[AP]] reported that 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>
According to the Chinese state media ''Global Times'', on June 28, 2021 a deal between CATL and [[Tesla Motors]] was announced;<ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227312.shtml#:~:text=China%20is%20the%20largest%20manufacturer,%2C%20BMW%2C%20Volkswagen%20and%20Geely.</ref> four days later the [[AP]] reported that 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>