Reordering Central Asia: China’s Emerging Economic Hierarchy (opens in new tab)

Introduction For much of the post–Cold War period, Central Asia was framed as a space of Sino-Russian coordination, institutionalized through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and underwritten by a tacit division of labor: Russia provided security, and China delivered mutually beneficial capital.[1]That division, which was an oversimplification of their roles, […]