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Beijing keeps its cool when admonishing wayward satrapies. It has perfected the cold shoulder.

China's state capitalism has nudged Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to green their domestic energy production.

Kazakhstan’s food producers look primed to benefit from China’s increasingly tense relationship with traditional trading partners. This and more in our monthly Chinese business briefing.

The loss-making Tajik company behind a mysterious Belt and Road investment is not a harbinger of economic transformation.

The first in a series of briefings on Beijing's investments in Central Asian renewables.

Our monthly briefing on China in Central Asia.

Beijing wants its neighbors to believe it is not abandoning them.

Many Chinese workers have been stuck in Central Asia during the coronavirus lockdown, forced to work overtime to meet production quotas.

China has a lot to brag about. And a few things to hide. This and more in our monthly report on Chinese business in Central Asia.

Trade has plummeted, Chinese goods are disappearing from markets, and exports of China’s favorite Central Asian commodity – natural gas – have nosedived.

Central Asia claims zero cases of coronavirus, but the economic symptoms are everywhere. This and more in our monthly briefing on Chinese business in the region.

We’re trying something new today. This briefing on Chinese business in Central Asia is based largely on Chinese-language sources.

What do these three things have in common: a Kyrgyz gold mine, a Malaysian Ponzi scheme, and canned camel milk? If you said the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing wants a word with you.

Sinophobia runs deep in many parts of Central Asia, where anxious perceptions of Beijing’s designs abound.

China is exporting its model of invasive, all-encompassing surveillance to Central Asia, often for free.