China is having its fingers in every pie across the globe! We've got to hand it to them.
How could you hand it to them if you didn't owe it in the first place.
But they need to be wary about trying to exploit Afghanistan's resources at the expense of the Afghans themselves. This is going to create a backlash with the various tribes once they see through the great Chinese game of exploitation and its hegemonic tendencies. Will the Afghans accept Chinese ideology like the Pakistanis have? I'm not too sure about that.
What is this Chinese ideology? You mean paying a higher price than India?
It's surprising why India hasn't exploited the trillions of dollars worth of mineral resources in Afghanistan seeing that India has an excellent interrelationship not only with the Afghan government but also the Afghans across the board. Have we ceded advantage to the Chinese who have come in to fill the vacuum?
Well, the problem is you never have the "advantage". The so called "excellent interrelationship" does not only exist between India and Afghan, but also between Afghan and China.
Actually, China has the advantages over India on every issue related Afghan:
1. China is the direct neighbor of Afghan, which means for any business cooperation, Chinese enjoy a huge transportation cost saving against India; Furthermore, if anything happens in Afghan, Chinese aid can be sent into the hands of their friends in Afghan straight away while India can't even send bullet without the permission of a third party.
2. Externally, comparing to India, Chinese has greater influence on every single neighbor of Afghan, that means China can provide better assistance on Afghan's diplomatic issues;
3. Internally, Chinese has been providing weapons/military training/logistic to most of Afghan tribes since Soviet era while India is late coming player;
4. On trade relationship, certainly, the world largest industry base can offer a far better deal to Afghan.
They have won most of the contracts in Afghanistan worth billions of dollars due to undercutting and corruption. It's going to take a lot to beat them at their game!
Sounds like every loser's word:"The reason we lose is that we play with justice and honesty while our opponents cheat". But we all know, the losers also played their dirty.