{"id":2259,"date":"2025-07-07T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:24:49","slug":"zalmay-khalilzad-u-s-must-curb-chinas-mineral-expansionism-in-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/zalmay-khalilzad-u-s-must-curb-chinas-mineral-expansionism-in-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmay Khalilzad: U.S. Must Curb China\u2019s Mineral Expansionism in Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weezharoz<\/strong> \u2013 In a statement, Khalilzad wrote: \u201cWe must contain China\u2019s mineral expansionism.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries in the broader region particularly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are eager to make mineral deals with the Trump Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the urgency of U.S. engagement: \u201cIt is imperative that we swiftly develop plans to explore opportunities in these countries and potentially across the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad warned that American inaction would only serve China\u2019s interests, filling a strategic void.<\/p>\n<p>He addressed key U.S. institutions, including the President, State Department, Department of Defense, and Department of the Interior.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded that failure to act promptly could have serious strategic consequences for U.S. interests in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Weezharoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezharoz \u2013 In a statement, Khalilzad wrote: \u201cWe must contain China\u2019s mineral expansionism. Several countries in the broader region particularly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are eager to make mineral deals with the Trump Administration.\u201d He stressed the urgency of U.S. engagement: \u201cIt is imperative that we swiftly develop plans to explore opportunities in these &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}