China is expanding its use of higher education as a tool of soft power. Turkmenistan's Ministry of Education and Kyrgyzstan's ...

All five Central Asian landlocked states were particularly focused on turning the limitations of being “landlocked” into ...

China's trade and infrastructure engagement with Central Asian states surged in 2025, reshaping regional economics, politics, ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine exacerbated the collapse of Moscow’s imperial influence, and since 2022, the war has ...

Central Asia is a crucial hub at the heart of Eurasia. Trade between China and Central Asia has surged since the first ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Kazakhstan on Monday to attend the second China–Central Asia Summit, a high-stakes diplomatic gathering aimed at deepening Beijing’s economic and strategic ties ...

In 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the land-based portion of what we now call the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in a speech delivered in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. More than a decade – ...

The Trump administration’s transactional diplomacy in Central Asia comes with both reconfiguration and constraints. It has broadened the scope of U.S. engagement, yet its depth and structural impact ...

As the world’s attention was focused on Iran, last week Chinese President Xi Jinping made a trip to Astana, Kazakhstan, to meet with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, ...

Central Asia Summit, leaders of six states came together to reaffirm their commitment to working closely on all sectors of ...