All of these factors help explain recent energy developments in Central Asia involving natural gas. China was long seen as the world’s major driver of rising global gas demand, but now its ...

While protests against Canadian mines, or Russian businesses, occur in Central Asia, “Chinese projects overwhelmingly receive ...

Over the course of 2023, Central Asia grappled with escalating challenges stemming from climate change, including disruptive weather patterns affecting long-standing agricultural practices and the ...

If this pattern repeats in a second term, it would further diminish the effectiveness of US strategy in Central Asia. In contrast, China’s presence in the region has been characterised by ...

In 2024, Central Asia enjoyed economic growth and avoided conflicts despite the ongoing war in nearby Ukraine. The year was characterised by frequent meetings of the five presidents in the ...

The rise of extremist ideologies among Central Asian youth has become a critical ... are being recruited for extremist activities, a pattern reminiscent of the recruitment seen during the ...

China's trade turnover with Central Asia increased by 5% in 2024 ... with a 22% increase in trade turnover and a similar pattern of trade imbalance. Top Trump Administration officials have ...

This bleak forecast is part of a long-term pattern and is attributed by experts to poor water ... under the auspices of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of Central Asia, the five member ...

SOAS, University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. China has been developing closer ties with countries in central Asia over recent years. Trade between China and the ...

The U.S. immigrant population from South and Central Asia has swelled to new heights ... The Census Bureau data underscore just how much immigration patterns have changed in recent years.

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist ...