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 ...

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 ...

Central Asia rose to global prominence in 2024 ... But the European Union’s influence may be affected by its pattern of periodic engagement and disengagement in the region. This inconsistent approach ...

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 ...

A study led by Prof. Tao Hui from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

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 ...

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.

C5 integration has taken various forms, including the Central Asian Union (CAU), established in 1993 at the request of Kazakhstan’s founding president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Later, it became the ...

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 ...

The leaders of five Central Asian countries were all eager to show the importance of strengthening relations with the European Union but also the importance of their economies and potentials for ...