Tajikistan News & Analysis

An overview of President Xi Jinping’s landmark initiative to link China’s economy with the rest of the world.

Exploring the role of Central Asian governments in stabilizing Afghanistan.

Washington has been making minor inroads into Central Asia, but will it be enough to stave off diplomatic irrelevance vis-à-vis China and Russia?

An overview of the China-Central Asia-Western Asia Corridor, one of the main economic conduits envisioned by China’s One Belt One Road Initiative.

This series takes a country-by-country look at the geopolitical competition between China and Russia in Central Asia.

China’s One Belt One Road is making great strides economically in Central Asia. Is improved security cooperation next?

On Central Asia, President Trump should listen to the words of Defense Secretary Mattis: “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.”

Brazil’s Rousseff on trial for impeachment, Tajikistan to get a ‘president-for-life,’ and Japan prepares for a key G7 summit next week.

Whether a question of imperial relapse or simple economics, Moscow has long been trying to consolidate its influence in Central Asia through the Eurasian Economic Union. But some key regional governments are still not convinced.

As delegations from Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states prepare to descend on the Russian city of Yekaterinburg next month, we can expect a spike in media pieces that paint the organization as a nascent ‘anti-NATO’. These media representations overlook a glaring fact: it isn’t in the SCO’s aims or means to become a new Warsaw Pact.

Flexing its growing international clout while American geopolitical power continues to decline precipitously, Russia is further developing the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) into a post Cold War Warsaw Pact.