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The Luban Workshops will spread technical skills, familiarity with Chinese equipment, and suspicion.

For all its billions spent, China still controls only a small share of Kazakh oil output.

Sanctions on Russia have stopped deliveries from the factories that traditionally supplied Kazakhstan.

The Chinese economy is not the one Kazakhs watch most closely.

Rodney Dixon, lawyer for victims of Chinese repression in Xinjiang, speaks with Eurasianet about seeking justice at the International Criminal Court and how Central Asian countries are vulnerable.

China wants Russia to stop interfering with Kazakh oil exports.

Tashkent sees the link as part of a transcontinental route bypassing Russia.

Central Asia sees its economic future in China, not Russia.

Demand has surged as the population turns to air conditioners and refrigeration equipment to keep cool.

What is Tajikistan prepared to give China as it struggles to settle its liabilities?

The Chinese leader downplayed repression in the region, while hyping economic possibilities.

Climate change and human activity threaten to drive the apple from its native soil by the end of the century, new research warns.

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.