Public perceptions toward Washington rapidly swing from positive to negative.
Almost all US assistance terminated.
Development bank lowers forecasts for Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa as slowdowns in Germany and China take their toll.
I have just been watching the Victory Day parade on Red Square. A few observations.
It’s a pitiful sight in the beautiful Ferghana Valley, where, in thousands of years of habitation, a formal frontier never existed.
Eurasia “at forefront” of assault on individual freedoms.
Playing long game for rare earths.
Ankara took a slap to the chops as Turkic Central Asian states inked an investment-linked deal on relations with Brussels that pointedly included no recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Wider region increasingly seen as arena in which major powers’ interests, such as in sourcing critical minerals, collide and converge.
Personnel moves seen as part of effort to ensure dynastic transfer of power.
Historically, it is the ultimate crossroads between Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia – and the central component for most of the Silk Road. Now the Central Asian countries find themselves caught between the Big Four.
Court decision likely years in making.
World Bank’s financing role facing scrutiny.