Central Asia: China Opens A New Silk Road - Analysis Eurasia Review

Central Asia: China Opens A New Silk Road - Analysis Eurasia Review:

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AERIAL VIEW OF GWADAR PORT, PAKISTAN

IN THE past decade, Central Asia has grown from a marginal position in Beijing’s strategic calculus to the top of its diplomatic priorities: China is fast emerging as a vital economic and political player in this strategically located and resource rich region.

China’s new focus in the region has been on cultivating good relations with the newly independent republics that bordered its restive western province of Xinjiang, home to several Turkic groups such as the Uighur, Uzbeks and Kazaks. Uighur nationalists and separatists, or “splitists” as Beijing calls them, have on occasion used the neighbouring countries to organise anti-China activity."

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