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Tajikistan’s Security Ties with China Are a Faustian Bargain
Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.
Tajikistan is hooked on the Chinese economy. It’s now taking risky security advice from Beijing.
Iran’s attractiveness to Central Asian nations increases the Islamic republic’s importance to the Belt and Road, China’s infrastructure, transportation and...
The Kyrgyz government rushed a tender. It didn’t go well.
China is exporting its model of invasive, all-encompassing surveillance to Central Asia, often for free.
Rallies began as talk circulated about plans to build dozens of factories.