From your post
They're sitting on $1trillion of minerals including lithium which China will be interested in
From the article
Competing factions within the Taliban would make it very difficult for any company to negotiate mining deals, and China is unlikely to extend to the group the scale of infrastructure loans that would be required to bring any sizeable mining operations online
That’s especially true after Chinese investors got burned on a $3 billion copper mining project in Afghanistan, started in 2007, that
failed to produce anything, largely because of challenges related to the lack of infrastructure.
As long as there are safer and more reliable sources elsewhere, full utilization of Afghan minerals is likely to remain slow,
The implication from the article being the Chinese are unlikely to be interested in the short to medium term