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The Tajik-Chinese Mining Company is a major contributor to GDP, but its own numbers don’t always add up.

Authorities see Zhetim-Too as an opportunity to pare down debt to Beijing, arguing that environmental risks can be mitigated.

Locals say authorities are arbitrarily seizing their homes to make way for a road from China.

The terror group behind growing carnage in the wretched country says anyone working with the Taliban is a target.

A better-connected GBAO would benefit Dushanbe and Beijing, but could change the face of a unique region.

Expanding Ashgabat’s dependence on China, visiting Iran, and talking north-south transportation links. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Customs officials have admitted they may have a corruption problem.

A new book exposes the hollowness of many Western assumptions about China’s role in Central Asia.

Can customs data from either side be trusted?

Authorities believe long-term detention for many is the only way to keep the lid on discontent.

Kazakh firms see an opportunity, but are tempering their enthusiasm for now.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi used a visit to Central Asia to talk about the United States. But his counterparts wanted to talk business.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China-Europe cargo transport is shifting to the south, but infrastructure in the Caucasus is still relatively underdeveloped.

Religious mores, politics and the coronavirus have cast a shadow over one of the few Kyrgyz products China buys.

Bishkek is pinning its industrial hopes on a small Chinese company with no past. The opaque arrangement reflects how Kyrgyzstan’s government does business.

Will a railway connecting the two countries via Kyrgyzstan ever happen?

Tashkent is reducing subsidies and phasing out exports to meet rising domestic demand.

Most strikes to hit Kyrgyzstan’s mining sector involve Chinese companies.

Washington and Beijing have strikingly similar objectives in Afghanistan.

The two presidents agreed to boost a transport corridor that bypasses Russia.

Micromanaging the lives of women and students, Chinese defense cooperation, and still yearning for a trans-Caspian pipeline. Our weekly briefing.

Ovalbek Turdakun’s passage from Kyrgyzstan to the United States was helped by two members of Congress.

Dushanbe is dependent on Russia and indebted to China. Will the IMF come to the rescue?

Kazakh officials know they cannot be seen siding with a Chinese company.

Chinese investors often get generous tax breaks in the country.