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China’s Expanding Military Education Diplomacy in Central Asia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In the past decade, Chinese universities have been inviting mid- and senior-level military officers from Central Asia and other countries in Eurasia. Chinese military education programs…

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China and Russia: Vaccine Competitors or Partners?

(China’s Resource Risks) The most valuable resource to the average person today is a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For China, which has rolled out two vaccines so far (Sinopharm and Sinovac),…

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Reading the Soy Leaves: What Soybean Imports Say about China’s 2020 Election Preferences

(China Resource Risks) Which candidate do Chinese leaders hope will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump or Joe Biden? According to the U.S. Directorate for National Intelligence, the Chinese…

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Tkachenko: Your opponent arrives with a baseball bat. Who will win? Of course, China, which is at least ten times more powerful than Russia

(MEMRI) The recent protests in Kyrgyzstan showed the country’s dependence on the neighboring PRC [People’s Republic of China]. It emerged that during the riots, Chinese business was badly damaged by…

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China’s crackdown on the Uighurs: A carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang

(Financial Times) A newly renovated hall in the largest museum in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region in China, hosts an installation that makes little sense for a…

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Mining for Trouble: The Resources at Stake in the China-India Border Dispute

(China’s Resource Risks) What is at stake in the recent Sino-Indian border clashes? Competing efforts to build roads, exploit mineral deposits, and secure water resources are an important backstory to the…

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Pipeline “Khanfluence”: Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China

(China’s Resource Risks) The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as of December 2019, after nearly thirty years of discussion. Despite this dilatory timeline, plans for…

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The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

(New Books Network) In today’s new episode, we speak with Sean Roberts about his brand new book The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020).…

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China in a Belarus Pickle

(China’s Resource Risks) The massive ongoing protests starting in August 2020 in capital city Minsk and throughout the country, galvanized by President Alexander Lukashenko’s fraudulent reelection, have Chinese leaders in…

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McGlinchey: Central Asian elites’ dependency on Chinese development loans constitute one potential driver of anti-Chinese sentiment

(The Diplomat) Over the last decade, China cemented its position as a consequential actor in Central Asia. Motivated to increase regional connectivity, diversify sources of energy imports, and safeguard its western…

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