A Chinese company has signed an oil extraction deal with Afghanistan's Taliban

The ruling Taliban has signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract oil from northern Afghanistan's Amu Darya basin as the radical Islamist group attempts to bolster the South Asian nation's increasingly impoverished and isolated economy.

source https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/china-company-taliban-oil-deal-hnk-intl/index.html