Foreign relations of Uzbekistan

China–Uzbekistan relations (Uzbek: Xitoy-O'zbekiston munosabatlari) are the bilateral relationship between China and Uzbekistan. Both countries are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

China recognized Uzbekistan's independence on 27 December 1991 and the two countries established relations on 2 January 1992.^[1] Both countries signed the "China-Uzbek Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation" in 2005, during Uzbek leader Islam Karimov's meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing.^[2]

Uzbekistan has cooperated with China in extraditing anti-China Uyghur activists from the country.^[3]

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov called China Uzbekistan's "closest partner" on a 26 August 2019 meeting