Anonymous2 days ago
The United States has committed over $1.3 billion in financing to Pakistan's Reko Diq copper-gold mine as part of a broader strategy to diversify critical mineral supply chains away from China, but a rapidly escalating Baloch insurgency — with attacks rising 119% in 2024 — threatens to derail these ambitions before a single tonne of ore reaches market. The conflict raises hard questions about whether Washington is replicating Beijing's troubled playbook in a province where enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and militant operations have made commercial mining a high-risk proposition with no guaranteed timeline.