In January 2023, Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC) signed a $540 million deal to extract oil from northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin.

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    How utterly dystopian and barbaric. Doesn’t China know what terrible folks the Taliban are? China should show off their military instead by destroying Afghanistan’s infrastructure and creating a humanitarian crisis, then proceed to loot the natural resources like a civilized country would.

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    … But they could spend 2 trillions for a war instead of helping to develop a war torn nation!