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It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year.

Fully 40 percent of Kazakh-Chinese trade is accounted for by dealings with Xinjiang.

The full-year target to deliver up to 1.5 million tons on this route may be missed, however.

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Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.

To many Uzbeks, China is not only an industrial behemoth with neocolonial intentions. It is also a source of scarce jobs.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Pipelines to Russia carried 94 percent of Kazakh oil exports last year.

Deliveries had reportedly been expected to start March 1, but that deadline has come and gone.

Priced out of Georgian cities by Russians fleeing conscription, many Ukrainian refugees have ended up in small, remote towns, where resources are few.

Beijing is leaning toward buying additional Central Asian gas, despite reliability concerns.

Though years behind schedule and stinking of corruption, the government wants to proceed with the Chinese-linked project.

Exports of Azerbaijani oil via the Black Sea were restarted but only temporarily, while exports of Russian crude oil through Azerbaijan have finally been halted due to EU sanctions.

The expectation is that gas consumption will soar to 40 billion cubic meters by 2030.