Douglas Brenton Anderson & Sardor Allayarov

Douglas Brenton Anderson is a Research Editor at Dow Jones, a Canada-Asia Young Professional Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, and Deputy Secretary-General at European Guanxi. His writings have been featured in The Diplomat, CAPS Unlock, and European Guanxi. Sardor Allayarov is an International relations expert with a research focus on theories of international relations, international order, China, Eurasia, and foreign policy. He currently serves as a Research Assistant at Urgench State University in Uzbekistan.

Geopolitical Realities of the C5+1 Framework

Situation Reports - Dec 09, 2025

President Donald Trump hosts a dinner with leaders of C5 Central Asian countries in the East Room of the White House , modified, White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/president-donald-trump-hosts-a-dinner-with-leaders-of-c5-central-asian-countries-in-the-east-room-of-the-white-house/

Intensifying geopolitical shifts in Central Asia are straining the region’s multivector diplomacy, but frameworks like C5+1 can still help strike a balance between competing great power interests.