Afghanistan: What are the Taliban's sources of income? | DW News

Now that the Taliban are about to run a whole country, experts are wondering what their sources of income will be and how they will use them. German expert Hans-Jakob Schindler risks a look ahead.

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[zainfarooq]

America spent 20 years in Afghanistan


just to upgrade the talibans weaponry and their English

[jon_s]

You guys must be living under a rock. China already reached out to the Taliban and discussed "win win deals". That said, capacity to extract natural resources won't be a problem

[barbaralindhjem]

I'm absolutely staggered that anybody could believe this would end any other way. No amount of foreign money or troops could have stopped the inevitable

[em]

China will help with the infrastructure and mining.

[aldrichuyliong]

Don't underestimate the Taliban's ability to exploit those natural resources now. There's a big difference between now and when they ruled in the late 90's: their next door neighbor China. China has the money, the will and the need to get their hands on those minerals and rare earths to maintain their market monopoly. It won't be that difficult to amend their belt and road plans to now include Afghanistan.

And yes, China were in separate talks with the Taliban while the Trump was negotiating US Troop withdrawal with the Taliban.

[COPKALA]

BTW the first year of the American occupation, there was a record export of opium!!

[LK-bzsk]

Taliban: Wake me up when the coalition has left. 20 years later. They have left. Very well lads, lets ride to Kabul (in Humvees) should be there in a week.

[AleksFolk]

Gas, oil, and minerals… that explains the urgency to ‘invade’ and ‘help’ the locals.

[ellengran]

Maybe they invested what they got from US some decades ago, back in the days when they were funded by US.

[marioreds]

As others have pointed out, and in summary: drugs and help from China and Russia willing to put their hands on the natural resources of the country (mostly minerals). Plus some help from Pakistani sympathizers, but that's secondary now.

[selcovoilucian]

Taliban : let's make the 12-th century great again

[nahomentertainment]

President of Afghanistan: Don't worry guys I have a plan.

President of Afghanistan has left the game.!!

[yogiwp_]

China would love to help with the resource extraction. I just hope that Afghan people gets a fair share of the wealth.

[myrandomchannel]

why did you guys take down the “land of endless war” documentary ? i just watched it 2 days ago and now it’s gone.

[soumyadeeplovestoexplore]

So in conclusion they will be the ultimate controller of country's vast resources and draining most of it's wealth which they already used to do.

[chioptnstdr]

I don’t believe they have oil. If they did, the US would still be there 😁

[nedludd]

They have been making hundreds of millions from mining, but then the guest says that infrastructure is a problem for its development. What, the infrastructure suddenly stopped working?

[truthkilla]

This is all priceless when it comes to selling you a narrative chaos is the reward

[keyboarddancers]

china will have roads and railways built within a very short time and it will reap untold rewards from the mineral resources concessions. Afghanistan will turn into a mountainous version of Saudi Arabia!

[basantitanga]

How the world is looking at this?
1) victory of native over foreign stoog?
2) victory of extremists over moderate Islam?