For more on sentiments towards China, see our new book Backlash, which was released today hurstpublishers.com/book/backlash/

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Regarding BRI investments, Kazakhstan was the single largest recipient with approximately $23 billion in investments in 2025 H1, followed by Thailand ($7.4 billion) and Egypt ($4.8 billion) astanatimes.com/2025/07/centra…

Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia by Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon is available now! ‘An important and often unnerving book.’ —Peter Frankopan Get 25% off w/code BACKLASH25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3pxr95c7

Speaker of Chinese Parliament arrives in Kyrgyzstan 24.kg/english/337251…

Our co-authored article with Prof Timur Dadabaev was featured in the International Affairs' X account post

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Tashkent: Azerbaijan extradites suspect accused of insulting Uzbekistan’s president gazeta.uz/en/2025/07/26/…

Nearly 100,000 Uzbeks living in South Korea koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/glo…

Talks between Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday included a possible increase in Kazakh oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline reuters.com/business/energ…

Research Fellow Bruce Pannier shares his insights on covering Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union with Peter Leonard for the CAPS unlock podcast. Listen here: havli.substack.com/p/an-interview… #CentralAsia #BrucePannier #Journalism #Eurasia

If finalized at the White House, the agreement (Azerbeijan-Armenia) would be the first U.S.-brokered peace deal in the post-Soviet space.

In the framework of his working visit to #Turkmenistan🇹🇲, President Shavkat #Mirziyoyev met with Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. Sides discussed further expansion of mutually beneficial cooperation in trade and economic, transport and logistics, cultural and

On a recent episode of the USCIRF Spotlight Podcast, Jasmine Cameron and Edward Lemon join Vice Chair Dr. Asif Mahmood to discuss how Central Asian states abuse extremism legislation to penalize peaceful religious activities through transnational repression. uscirf.gov/news-room/usci…

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Visiting the grave of my ancestor Vice-Admiral Phillipe Durrell in Halifax. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station in 1766 but died on the way due to eating a bad bit of dolphin.

Kyrgyzstan’s Capital Bank is hit by UK sanctions

Yesterday, in Washington, D.C., the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov held a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The diplomats discussed the current state and prospects of 🇹🇲-🇺🇸 cooperation, giving priority attention to political dialogue,