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Why is the west oh so concerned about the region? Who benifiets? What is the typical pattern of western concern in a nation?
China discovers oil field with one billion tons of reserves in Junggar Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
It would really benefit the petroldollar / NATOil nations if they coud wedge off a major oil and gas resource and get a buffer bulkanization between China and Russia, 2 major economic competitors to the Petroldollar.
Oil extracted under RMB is profits not in Petroldollars, and devalues Petroldollars.
But NATOil focus grouped "We want to forcefully bulkanize China to suck it's oil and profits for ourselves. Then have a friendly buffer state to grow more chaos between China and Russia." And found that was a hard sell. So like they always do - try to make it a human appeal to manufacture a justification for military action.
Behind the U.S. anti-China campaign
they'd be pushing for terrorism in xinjiang even without the oil, in order to get bases there to further encircle china. same reason they tried to push for a "free tibet" (and would resume that push the instant it looked like it could work).