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Archives: Central Asia
![For Russian hold on Trump, follow the Money, not the Sex tapes](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/for-russian-hold-on-trump-follow-187x137.jpg)
![The Plague of Karimov’s Rule in Uzbekistan](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/the-plague-of-karimovs-rule-in-u-187x137.jpg)
The Plague of Karimov’s Rule in Uzbekistan
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The death of Islam Karimov, the president for life of Uzbekistan who came to power in 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet…![Dragon Rising? China seeks Closer military Cooperation with Syria](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/dragon-rising-china-seeks-closer-187x137.jpg)
Dragon Rising? China seeks Closer military Cooperation with Syria
By Juan Cole | Informed Comment | - - The Arabic press is reporting that a high Chinese official on a visit to Damascus has announced that Beijing intends to strengthen its…![Can Muslim Fundamentalism be Criminalized? Militant Secularism in Central Asia](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/12/can-muslim-fundamentalism-be-cri-187x137.jpg)
Can Muslim Fundamentalism be Criminalized? Militant Secularism in Central Asia
By Farangis Najibullah and Charles Recknagel | ( RFE/RL) | - - Nabijon spends nearly 10 hours a day inside his one-room barbershop on a dusty backstreet in Khujand, Tajikistan's second-largest city.…![By the Time Washington wakes up to China’s Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/by-the-time-washington-wakes-up-187x137.jpg)
By the Time Washington wakes up to China’s Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security, and foreign…![Pakistan as Hong Kong West: China’s New Silk Road & US Failure](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/pakistan-as-hong-kong-west-china-187x137.jpg)
Pakistan as Hong Kong West: China’s New Silk Road & US Failure
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Chinese President Xi Jinping made a state visit, full of pomp and circumstance, to Pakistan on Monday, but its centerpiece was a $46 billion investment…![Afghanistan’s China Card](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/afghanistans-china-card-187x137.jpg)
Afghanistan’s China Card
By Dilip Hiro | (Tomdispatch.com) - Call it an irony, if you will, but as the Obama administration struggles to slow down or halt its scheduled withdrawal from Afghanistan, newly elected Afghan President Ashraf…![Modern Silk Roads and China’s Brave New World](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/modern-silk-roads-and-chinas-bra-187x137.jpg)
Modern Silk Roads and China’s Brave New World
By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) - BEIJING -- Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy…![China’s Pivot toward Europe may Cut USA out of Deal](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/12/chinas-pivot-toward-europe-may-c-187x137.jpg)
China’s Pivot toward Europe may Cut USA out of Deal
By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) -- November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers…![Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle? How Russia & China may block the US in Asia](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/10/does-bear-dragon-trump-eagle-how-187x137.jpg)
Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle? How Russia & China may block the US in Asia
By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch.com A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is…![The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China’s and Russia’s Century?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/05/the-eurasian-pivot-is-it-chinas-187x137.jpg)
The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China’s and Russia’s Century?
(By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch) HONG KONG -- A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of…![Climate Change and the Rise of Genghis Khan](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701003257im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/03/climate-change-and-the-rise-of-g-187x137.jpg)