By Alessandro Arduino
Since invading Ukraine, Russia has used a combination of incentives and threats to align Central Asian countries with its interests. Russia has also converged with China as an adamant opponent to Western development cooperation programs that they perceive as masked initiatives aimed at infiltrating...
Central Asia
Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Tug of war
Taliban
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Ukraine
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Xi Jinping
Western world
Kyrgyzstan
Beijing
Islamic State – Khorasan Province
Israel
Kerman
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Ashgabat
TashkentCambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet’s visit to Malaysia on 27 February is part of a larger strategic overture, including his visit..
**Introduction**
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 ‘the tectonic plates of geopolitics have been..