Re-centering Central Asia: China’s “New Great Game” in the old Eurasian Heartland
China’s President Xi Jinping’s Central Asian tour in fall 2013 marked Beijing’s unprecedented (re)turn to Central Asia as a lynchpin of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” of the globally ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s BRI positions Central Asia as the crucial nexus for the cross-region...
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
2018
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