Hao Nan

THE WRITER IS A RESEARCH FELLOW WITH THE CHARHAR INSTITUTE

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The countries have upgraded their 2007 Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Treaty into a permanent framework.

China’s Tajikistan treaty shows Central Asia’s new investment geography

Turkmenistan offers China something rarer than another gas field: a discreet land access to Iran.

China’s Eurasian hedge runs through Turkmenistan

The central question is whether Iran can make the economic price of continuing the war too high, too global and too prolonged to ignore.

Iran’s real weapon is the world economy