In the past ten days, the Taliban sold 150,000 tons of crude oil for over $80 million. This follows their 25-year contract with China's CAPEIC, which invested $49 million to boost daily production to 8,000 barrels.

Beijing's investment in Afghanistan is starting to pay off as the government has sold 150,000 tons (1.1 million barrels) of crude oil from the Amu Darya basin for more than $80 million in the last ten days.

The Taliban successfully put up an additional 20,000 tons (or 146,0...