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The Taliban and the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company of China agree to a 25-year deal to allow the Chinese firm to drill for oil in the Amu Darya basin. It is Afghanistan's first major energy extraction agreement with a foreign firm since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
2023-01-6

Temperatures in Chongqing, China, reach 45 C during a historic drought. It is the highest temperature ever recorded in China outside of Xinjiang.
2022-08-19

The United States Senate unanimously votes to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill that would ban products from Xinjiang in China, unless they are certified as not from the Xinjiang internment camps.
2021-07-14

China reports 137 asymptomatic cases during a drive to test 4.75 million people in Kashgar. It is the highest number of asymptomatic infections in nearly seven months following the discovery of a cluster of cases linked to a garment factory in Xinjiang.
2020-10-26

The United States State Department criticizes Thailand for deporting ethnic Uyghur back to China. The predominantly Uyghur Xinjiang province is the site of an ongoing political and religious crackdown in response to a wave of Muslim terrorist attacks in China.
2015-07-10

The People's Republic of China jails 32 people for allegedly downloading and spreading violent Islamist material via the Internet to Xinjiang.
2014-07-11

The People's Republic of China jails 113 people in Xinjiang autonomous region for terrorism and other offences.
2014-06-30

The People's Republic of China arrests 139 people in Xinjiang for allegedly calling for jihad.
2013-10-9

China sentences 20 men of the ethnic Uighur group to jail terms of up to life imprisonment on charges of terrorism and inciting secession in Xinjiang.
2013-03-27

Violence in the Xinjiang region of China leaves 20 people dead.
2012-02-29