Chinese company offers $10 billion to the Taliban for access to lithium deposits

The Taliban’s Ministry of Mine and Petroleum said on Thursday that a Chinese company, Gochin, has expressed willingness to invest $10 billion on Afghanistan’s lithium deposits.

The group’s Minister for Mine and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, according to the ministry, met with representatives from Gochin in Kabul. The Chinese investment, the ministry said, would create 120,000 direct and a million indirect jobs in the country.