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The United States is aware of, but not openly reacting to, Chinese military ground operations inside war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Adam Stump, a Department of Defense (DoD) spokesman, confirmed to Breitbart News that the Pentagon is fully “aware” of the communist country’s military operations on Afghan soil, adding that the U.S. mission continues apace.

China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang, home to the country’s largest concentration of its Muslim Uighur minority, borders Afghanistan.

Uighurs fighting with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which has established a presence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, recently vowed to return to China and “shed blood like rivers” in an ISIS propaganda video.

In recent months, news reports from the communist country’s regional rival India have repeatedly claimed that Beijing has carried out military patrols inside its neighbor Afghanistan.

Asked to comment on China conducting military patrols on Afghan soil, the DoD spokesman told Breitbart News:

We’re aware of the reporting. For any details or goals, you would need to talk to the Chinese or Afghans.

Our primary mission remains to protect the homeland by preventing Afghanistan from being used again as a safe haven for terrorists to attack the United States or our allies. Complementing the U.S. counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan is NATO’s Resolute Support Mission. This operation, the largest and longest in NATO’s history, focuses on training, advising, and assisting the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and the Afghan Security Institutions to achieve a secure and stable Afghanistan.

At Kabul’s request, China began to provide military aid to Afghanistan via a Russia last year, as former President Barack Obama’s administration further reduced the U.S. military presence in the country amid deteriorating security conditions.

Military Times reports:

There is mounting evidence that Chinese ground troops are operating inside Afghanistan, conducting joint counter-terror patrols with Afghan forces along a 50-mile stretch of their shared border and fueling speculation that Beijing is preparing to play a significantly greater role in the country’s security once the U.S. and NATO leave.

The full scope of China’s involvement remains unclear, and the Pentagon is unwilling to discuss it. “We know that they are there, that they are present,” a Pentagon spokesman said. Yet beyond a subtle acknowledgement, U.S. military officials in Washington and in Kabul would not respond to several detailed questions submitted by Military Times.

The Pentagon referred Breitbart News to the Chinese and Afghan governments for more details on China’s role in Afghanistan.

China and Afghanistan have denied the news reports about Chinese military ground patrols inside the war-ravaged nation.

“But then there’s this peculiarity: In January, Chinese media circulated a report about Chinese troops allegedly rescuing a U.S. special forces team that had been attacked in Afghanistan,” notes Military Times. “The story is likely bogus propaganda, and U.S. officials in Afghanistan say no U.S. personnel have been part of any operations involving Chinese forces, but it would seem to underscore the two countries’ shared interest in combating terrorism there.”

China is concerned about the terrorism threat emanating from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, home to 20 of the 98 U.S. or United Nations-designated terrorists organizations around the world, according to the U.S. military.

In particular, the al-Qaeda-linked Uighur group known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and ISIS threaten China.

http://www.breitbart.com/natio...pentagons-knowledge/

Afghanistan has large quantities of lithium. Maybe the Chinese have their eye on this.

Maybe we'll get to see China sucked into a 20 year war in Afghanistan.

Everybody gets a decade or so in Afghanistan. I suppose it's China's turn.

Afghanistan, not so much a political entity as it is a place on a map, is also known as the "Graveyard of Empires"; just ask the Macedonian-Greeks, the Persians, the Mongols/Mughals, the Russians & the British in their "Great Game", the Soviets, and the Americans. China will learn too.

"Eyeing Afghanistan's estimated $1 trillion worth of unexploited minerals, Chinese companies have acquired rights to extract vast quantities of copper and coal and snapped up the first oil exploration concessions granted to foreigners in decades. China is also eyeing extensive deposits of lithium, uses of which range from batteries to nuclear components." Article is 4 years old so I imagine they are a lot farther along by now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...afghanistan/1866571/

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Afghanistan, not so much a political entity as it is a place on a map, is also known as the "Graveyard of Empires"; just ask the Macedonian-Greeks, the Persians, the Mongols/Mughals, the Russians & the British in their "Great Game", the Soviets, and the Americans. China will learn too.

Yes, this should be interesting!
The world will get to see if or how capable the PLA is.

Plenty of shwacking left for all interested parties left in that dust bin of empires...

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Originally posted by darkest2000:
Maybe we'll get to see China sucked into a 20 year war in Afghanistan.

They wont, they're just there for the stuff - they'll roll in heavy, kill whoever opposes them, then leave.

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Originally posted by darkest2000:
Maybe we'll get to see China sucked into a 20 year war in Afghanistan.
They wont, they're just there for the stuff - they'll roll in heavy, kill whoever opposes them, then leave.



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Thats right. They wont fight anyone. They'll just take the minerals and bribe their way in and out.

They get to take stuff, get some experience for their military and weapons producer's, and probably kill a bunch of Muslims in their country. If they lose a few divisions along the way that just reduces the problem of way too many males in their population.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
They wont, they're just there for the stuff - they'll roll in heavy, kill whoever opposes them, then leave.

That's what everybody who has ever gone there thought they would do...

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take the minerals and bribe their way in and out.

THAT might work...

The YT channel, China Uncensored reported on this.

https://youtu.be/S25ccv3UdnY

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Originally posted by FishOn:

Thats right. They wont fight anyone. They'll just take the minerals and bribe their way in and out.

Although the Chinese are often regarded as shrewd business people, they do have a pretty sizable and rapidly modernizing military. One of the things that is holding them back is lack of practice--they haven't had the same experience fighting wars as we have. They know this, we know this. They may be using this opportunity to train to fight an insurgency type conflict.

If ever a fight came to American soil, our opponents better be well equipped to fight an civilian insurgency in addition to conventional warfare.

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China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang, home to the country’s largest concentration of its Muslim Uighur minority, borders Afghanistan.

Huh. So to get to Afghanistan, the ChiComs have to pass through what is basically Uighurstan, albeit a Uigherstan that is at least nominally under the direct control of the People's Republic of China.

This is also the Uighurstan where PRC military posts have been attacked by machete-weilding jihadis - successfully - and where there have been a number of knife attacks as well.

Maybe I'm being cynical, but shouldn't the PRC pretty much assume that providing all of the men, fuel, ammo and other stuff it'll take to fight or post up in Afghanistan is going to be awfully slow, expensive and risky? And wouldn't the same hold true for shipments of minerals back into China from Afghanistan?

Somehow this all sounds more like a desperate attempt to cut off support and refuge from eastern Afghanistan for Uighurs in the PRC than anything bigger.

I would not call it desperate.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
Everybody gets a decade or so in Afghanistan. I suppose it's China's turn.

Enjoy the nightmare....

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Originally posted by mark_a:
... If they lose a few divisions along the way that just reduces the problem of way too many males in their population.

Or China learns the joys of "chai boys" and "Man Love Thursday" and they can steal that too.

They're trying to protect their backdoor from another group of crazies and not bothering us any.
Why not let them take a crack at it. Hasn't worked out for anybody else so far.

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Originally posted by FishOn:
"Eyeing Afghanistan's estimated $1 trillion worth of unexploited minerals, Chinese companies have acquired rights to extract vast quantities of copper and coal and snapped up the first oil exploration concessions granted to foreigners in decades. China is also eyeing extensive deposits of lithium, uses of which range from batteries to nuclear components."

Serious question: If the land has resources, why have the native people been unable to elevate themselves above the level of "shithole". While tempting to blame it on Islam, those resources were there before Mohammed. Is there a genetic predisposition toward irrational behavior?