Image: Akorda.kz Kazakhstan and China signed more than 70 commercial agreements worth over $15 billion during President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s working visit to Shanghai on July 16. The package covers artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, transport, finance, agriculture, …
@TCA Central Asia’s biggest debtor is not necessarily its most vulnerable. Kazakhstan accounts for roughly two-thirds of the region’s external liabilities, but much of that debt sits on corporate balance sheets rather than the …
Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn Japan and South Korea have reached the same strategic conclusion: Central Asia matters to their economic security. Yet they are pursuing that goal through markedly different playbooks. In December 2025, …
Image: TCA Uzbekistan has recorded one of the world’s fastest reductions in water stress in recent years, according to a new United Nations case study on the country’s water-management policies. The study points to efforts to …
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she and her Awami League colleagues would return to their home country in December and surrender to the authorities. Declaring that “they might kill me”, Hasina said …
Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn U.S. strikes on Iranian rail and coastal infrastructure have put Central Asia’s southern transport plans under new pressure. Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan have spent years building routes through Iran to reach …
Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev may seek another term under the country’s 2026 Constitution, effectively resetting the count created under the previous Basic Law while leaving the …
Uzbekistan Census Image: TCA, Stephen M. Bland Uzbekistan’s first full census since the Soviet era has found more than 810,000 people who were missing from the country’s running estimates, shifting the baseline for schools, …
Source: IRNA Central Asian delegations have traveled to Iran for the funeral of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on Feb. 28, the first day of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran. The gesture reflects how Central Asia countries want to preserve and expand longstanding ties with Iran, …
Image: TCA, Stephen M. Bland Kyrgyzstan has asked Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to help secure its fuel supplies as shortages inside Russia put new strain on Central Asia’s fuel market. The move follows …
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