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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

The region is becoming a business platform for minerals, energy, data and other strategic resources

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

China’s Eurasian hedge runs through Turkmenistan

The country in Central Asia helps turn connectivity from a route into an insurance policy

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

Missiles, drones, mining threats and selective maritime disruption can be enough to make insurers, traders, shipowners and governments reprice risk

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Feb 25. Instead of the West versus China, the real story concerns how middle powers are widening their economic options under Trump-era volatility while keeping their security anchoring intact.

Hedging or realigning: mapping the West’s China policy since Trump 2.0

The West is not breaking – it is modularising

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