Article #49798
South China Morning Post - World News
| Title | With Central Asia rising, John Lee’s visit was well timed | Source | South China Morning Post - World News |
| Description | In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true – and the five-country region embracing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan (informally called the C5) certainly sits at the heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative – then Beijing could not have chosen a less noticed corner of the world atlas. Unnoticed, perhaps, by almost everyone except Halford Mackinder, who in 1904 described... | ||
| Link | https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3356793/central-asia-rising-john-lees-visit-was-well-timed?utm_source=rss_feed | Published At | 2026-06-12 04:30:06 (1 month ago) |
| Created At | 2026-06-12 04:32:14 | Updated At | 2026-06-12 04:32:14 |