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National Bank of Kazakhstan introduces digital currency

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Macron concludes Central Asia charm offensive

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Is Uzbekistan backsliding on religious freedom?

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Debt trap diplomacy: how China’s BRI is trapping Central Asian countries

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Just how many lives have we lost to Covid-19? In large parts of the world, that is a question to which we may never get...

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As the U.S finally leaves Afghanistan, China could fill the vacuum

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Under the cover of Coronavirus, democratic backsliding

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Ankara & Brussels: Turkey cannot afford a confrontation

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China, Uyghurs, forced labour: a recipe for litigation?

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In Donald Trump, North Korea loses an unlikely ally

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