Chinese commentaries highlight the launch of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway and a $1 billion mining deal between China and Kazakhstan, as signs of a quiet pivot toward Beijing.
Since Russia’s Ukraine invasion, China has deepened economic ties with Central Asian nations, eyeing their strategic location and rich energy resources.
Although the survey of Central Asia is among Stein’s most renowned and celebrated works, he had also successfully surveyed a wide landscape from Jammu and Kashmir to West Bengal.
National security adviser says Afghanistan 'remains a concern for all of us' and terrorism remains one of the most serious threats to international peace & security.
Central Asian nations should oppose ‘external interference’ in internal affairs of regional countries and attempts to instigate ‘colour revolutions,’ said Chinese president.
The fortunes Indian merchants built in Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent were based on a single, simple thing: Selling all that Central Asian consumers needed.
None of India’s objectives behind joining SCO seem to have been achieved so far. But Russia's neo-Eurasianist policy and China's economic expansionism are keeping Delhi engaged.
In ‘The China Factor’, Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury writes that while China’s strategic interests in India’s neighbourhood have increased, this has not been an entirely unilateral decision.
Uttarakhand has the technology, funds, and administrative capacity to become the first zero-poverty state in India, thus fulfilling the first two Sustainable Development Goals.
According to the Niti Aayog quarter trade watch report launched Monday, India’s total trade in FY 2025 was at US$1.73 trillion—exports at US$823 billion & imports US$908 billion.
Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
The economic dimension is more important to Central Asia than the security aspect. Who would invade these extensive, landlocked countries. Resource rich, China is a reliable market. China’s infrastructure and connectivity projects are what their economies need.
The economic dimension is more important to Central Asia than the security aspect. Who would invade these extensive, landlocked countries. Resource rich, China is a reliable market. China’s infrastructure and connectivity projects are what their economies need.