A former U.S. Special Forces weapons and intelligence specialist has come forward with staggering allegations that American military personnel were deployed to Afghanistan to safeguard Chinese mineral extraction operations as early as 2009.
The operative, who served as an embassy liaison and project researcher, stated that during his deployments in 2009 and 2010, military operations consistently appeared to protect Chinese mining routes.
“China has been there the entire time,” the specialist declared.
Every border his unit blocked and every operation they conducted seemed designed to secure Chinese interests, according to his account.
“I was in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, and everything we happened to be running across, every border we happened to be blocking, every operation that we happened to be fighting against, seemed to be protecting their route,” he explained.
The pattern became so apparent that he reported his observations to command personnel.
His superiors instructed him to document his findings in an official report and submit it through proper channels.
Despite following protocol, he never received any response to his concerns.
The operative expressed frustration at what he perceived as a decade-long pattern of Chinese activity in Afghanistan occurring with government approval.
He stated, “I thought it was really strange that far into the game and specifically putting a special forces team down in that area to block a spot that seemed to have nothing except Chinese drillers… ten years of them doing sh*t in the background, in Afghanistan, with the blessing of whoever the government was that they were pretending to work with at the time, whilst we were dying.”
The China Metallurgical Group secured a significant mining contract in Afghanistan in 2007, Rift News reported.
The company obtained a $3 billion, 30-year lease to develop a major copper mining operation in the country.
This contract was awarded approximately seven years after the United States began military operations in Afghanistan.
The timing places Chinese commercial interests in the country during active American military engagement.
The outlet noted that while direct confirmation of military orders to protect Chinese mining operations remains unavailable, documented financial relationships between prominent American political families and Chinese entities provide relevant context.
The Bush family, for example, maintains extensive historical connections to Chinese business and political interests.
George H.W. Bush received an appointment from President Gerald Ford to serve as chief of the Liaison Office to the People’s Republic of China back in 1974.
His father, Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr., conducted significant banking and business operations in China throughout his career.
As an American banker and Republican Party politician, Prescott Bush developed high-level business relationships that would later influence family connections to Chinese interests.
These commercial relationships expanded substantially after George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2001.
The Bush family’s involvement in Chinese affairs deepened during George W. Bush’s presidency.
Family members leveraged their political connections to establish lucrative business arrangements with Chinese companies and organizations.
These relationships continued to develop throughout the administration’s eight-year tenure.
Rift News highlighted that Neil Bush, George W. Bush’s brother, established a $400,000 annual consulting contract in 2003 with a Chinese computer chip manufacturer.
His role involved providing strategic business guidance to the company.
Neil Bush also founded the George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, which receives primary funding from Chinese organizations with documented connections to the Chinese Communist Party.
The foundation accepted a $5 million grant from the China-United States Exchange Foundation, an organization identified as central to Chinese influence operations in America.
His business activities extended to representing Sinopec Group, a major Chinese petroleum company, in negotiations for oil field development rights in Ghana.
