China has been investing in solar and wind energy projects in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, increasingly adapting its approach to the needs and regulations in each country.
Kazakhstan has leveraged its natural uranium resources to hold the reins in its nuclear fuel–related dealings with China.
Kazakhstan’s leadership on nuclear and biological risk reduction for the last 30 years serves as a core model for regional and international security. Please join us for a moderated discussion on the history of this work and Kazakhstan’s increasingly global role in the changing WMD threat landscape.
Temur Umarov offers insights on the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Kazakhstan’s domestic and foreign policy.
Evan Feigenbaum, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Temur Umarov, Nicole Grajewski, and Asel Doolotkeldieva focus on strategic dynamics in continental Asia and how regional players—not the United States or the transatlantic West—are driving both diplomacy and regional integration.
The political elites of Central Asia view the invasion of Ukraine through the prism of their own interests, top of which is the preservation of their own regimes. For this reason, they will continue to show loyalty to Putin.
The Kazakh leadership has achieved its main aim of easing up a little and making space for others while maintaining complete control of parliament.
By continuing to rely on Russia’s ethnic minorities and foreign labor migrants to do its dirty work in Ukraine, the Kremlin is inadvertently damaging ties to its former colonies.
Some speculate that by drawing its southern neighbors into closer cooperation on gas, Russia wants to gain control over Central Asian exports to China. That won’t be easy.
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