China Cuts Deal With Taliban to Drill for Oil in Afghanistan
The Taliban has signed a 25-year agreement with Afganistan for its first major energy extractions deal since 2021 when it took control of Afghanistan. Chinese company To drill for oil in the country’s Amu Darya Basin.
“The Amu Darya oil contract is an important project between China and Afghanistan,” According to a BBC report last Wednesday, Wang Yu, Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan said this at a Kabul press conference.
The Taliban has reached an agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company. It is expected to last for 25 years. Meanwhile, another Chinese state-owned firm is reportedly in negotiations with the Taliban for operation of a copper mine in Afghanistan. The eastern Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters in Kabul (Afghanistan), Aug. 30, 2021
(AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)
The agreement comes as Chinese nationals face increasing security threats as the country strengthens its ties with Taliban.
At least three people were killed and 18 more were injured, including five Chinese nationals. This attack took place despite assurances from the Taliban that security was being maintained. “guaranteed” Chinese citizens as well as other foreigners
Some observers think such attacks against Chinese nationals will continue. They point out that Afghanistan’s security is at stake. ISIS Offshoot China’s treatment Uyghur Muslims has raised concerns.
“I definitely expect… similar attacks in the future, against the interests of countries that are attempting to forge close relations with the Taliban regime,” Faran Jeffery, deputy director and head of South Asia terrorism at the Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism told the South China Morning Post Monday.
Taliban fighters guard the spot of an explosion that occurred in Kabul, Afghanistan.
(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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“[ISIS-K] has referred to China’s communist godless nature… its oppression of Uyghur Muslims and its relationship with the Afghan Taliban as legitimate reasons to attack its interests in Afghanistan,” He added.
The Taliban claimed last week that they had conducted an operation against ISIS-K, which was responsible for the attack on the hotel. They also reported that eight Islamic State militants were killed during the raid.
China has not yet officially recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The Taliban continue to look to China as a friend and trade partner to tap into its vast resources. Reserves of resources
Afghanistan is home to over $1 trillion in natural gas, copper, rare earth minerals and other resources, many of which have not been exploited due to decades of war and turmoil.
Chinese President Xi Jinping
(Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital’s China expert Gordon Chang said last year that the alliance between the two countries would likely grow.
“It looks like the so-called Red-Green alliance is thriving in Central Asia,” He stated. “Evildoers like to work together. So should we be surprised that China’s Communist Party and Afghanistan’s Taliban are cooperating even more closely than before?”
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