Unrest escalates in Central Asia
A simmering conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan has escalated in recent weeks, creating instability in the region to where...
Central Asia
US deploys frozen Afghan central bank assets
When the Taliban overran Afghanistan in August 2021, the US froze $7 billion in Afghan...
Central Asia balances China and the West
Kazakhstan hosted Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin alongside leaders from across Central Asia at this...
Failures across the ‘Belt and Road’ forced China to confront its first debt crisis as a creditor
The surge in lending to fund China’s Belt and Road Initiative has left Beijing with...
