Central Asia

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.

Opinion & Features

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

President Xi Jinping launched the sprawling Belt and Road infrastructure initiative in Kazakhstan more than a decade ago.

International

Xi’s Central Asia outreach pays off with a fundraising blitz

Kazakhstan remains the largest recipient of Chinese FDI at US$11.4 billion

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (right) welcomes Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov at the "Central Asia plus Japan" summit attended by the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 20, 2025.

International

Japan sets US$19 billion business target in Central Asia

JAPAN unveiled a five-year goal on Saturday for business projects totalling US$19 billion in Central Asia as Tokyo vies for influence in the resource-rich region.

Above: a woman picks walnuts in the walnut forest of Kyrgysztan. Human activities, such as herding cattle and illegal logging, have thinned out the area.

International

In Kyrgyzstan, world’s largest natural walnut forest thins away

The forest is affected by the overgrazing of livestock, illegal logging and rising temperatures

The Chinese leader is visiting Kazakhstan for the third time since 2020.

International

Xi takes push for global sway to Central Asia with Kazakhstan visit

China has sought to counter the US-led global order – a goal it shares with Russia – in part by courting the Global South

Kazakhstan’s leading trade and investment partner is the EU, with bilateral trade reaching around 50 billion euros.

Opinion & Features

World powers focus on resource-rich Central Asia

HALFORD MacKinder, a founding father of geopolitics, claimed more than a century ago that the country which controls Central Asia and neighbouring nations shall be the “empire of the world”.

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