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China’s emergence and development challenges that China faces in Central Asia

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Date
28/12/2022
Author
Zhang, Chi
Funder
The British Academy
Grant ID
PF20\100052
Keywords
Central Asia
Sino-Russian relations
Terrorism
Belt and road initiative
Security cooperation
JZ International relations
DS Asia
T-DAS
MCC
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Abstract
Development in Central Asia faces intensifying headwinds in various aspects. Terrorism and political instability have been the primary sources of concern for this chessboard of rivaling great powers. The US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan left a power vacuum, and the region’s future is further clouded by elevated uncertainty. The so-called ‘new Cold War’ discourse is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy that contextualizes regional geopolitical maneuverings. These developments present a pressing need to evaluate development challenges in Central Asia in the context of China’s rising influence in the region through the Belt and Road Initiative and other regional frameworks, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China Pakistan Economic Corridor. This paper seeks to examine the shifting geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape in Central Asia in the context of global ideological confrontations and the regional Great Game between China and Russia. Drawing on think tank reports, English-language media reports, and scholarly works, it argues that China’s investment and development strategy in Central Asia can be improved by giving geopolitical and geoeconomic factors full consideration. The changing political dynamics in the region have significant implications for China’s engagement with Central Asian countries, its broader Belt and Road Initiative extending through Central Asia to Europe, and development challenges that transcend the dualistic categorization of development and security.
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Zhang , C 2022 , ' China’s emergence and development challenges that China faces in Central Asia ' , Asian Review of Political Economy , vol. 1 , no. 1 , 10 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s44216-022-00005-7
Publication
Asian Review of Political Economy
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s44216-022-00005-7
ISSN
2731-5835
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Funding: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship: PF20_100052.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26677

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