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rapidtravelchai/Flickr How Chinese Merchants Are Transforming Central Asia
Traders from China, a ubiquitous presence in the region's bazaars, represent Beijing's growing influence in an area once dominated by Russia.
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Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters China Is Pivoting to Central Asia—but Is Washington Paying Attention?
Beijing's deepened connections to the energy-rich countries on its Western border represent a significant geopolitical shift—one the U.S. ignores at its peril.
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Central Asia's Most Important City Is ... Not in Central Asia
It's in China. Welcome to Urumqi.
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Central Asia's New Energy Giant: China
Once firmly within Russia's sphere of influence, the energy-rich region has increasingly turned east, altering the balance of power.
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China's Strategy in Afghanistan
Beijing is keen to increase its involvement in the country following the planned U.S. withdrawal in 2014. But security problems may interfere.
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A Hungry China Sets Its Sights on Central Asia
In the ex-Soviet states of Central Asia, China's influence is only beginning to grow.
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The New Great Game: Development, Not Domination, in Central Asia
The U.S., China, and Russia are taking a different approach to this region, long a chessboard for great powers.
