The Chinese government can be awful and usually is, but they probably won't be as dumb as the US when it comes to it's imperialism, subjection, and empire building. At least not totally at first if they don't have to. They are smart enough with forien nations to often start out not with bombing like we do, but with promises of things like infrastructure building and trade networks. Sure, there is no way in hell they would do it for altruistic reasons, and the price in the end might be terrible for the nations that agree to it, but it sure seems like that has a hell of a lot better chance to work with a place like Afghanistan than what we did.
As far as the former weapons there go, what needs to be remembered is that a lot of it wasn't just left there and abandoned by us like some in the news make it out to be. It was theoretically to be used by the Afghan government. The one that ended up being a virtual sham and folded almost instantly. All that billions worth of equipment is now the Taliban's, and there isn't much that can be done about it. If there was any resistance by the Afghans we left in charge at all some of that would at least been destroyed or used up, but now they will get almost everything. This is now twice in recent history they will end up with a ton of US military equipment. All the more reason not to do something as stupid as getting into places like Afghanistan again. Then again, it's not like we have ever learned from stuff like this before, and war profiteers in the US are going to do what they always do.
