On June 24, 2016, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tashkent, the presidents of China, Mongolia and Russia agreed on the China-Mongolia- Russia Economic Corridor (CMREC), which is an important project of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The project aims at realizing joint projects in areas such […]
The anti-Chinese sentiment has increased in Kyrgyzstan lately as three rallies protesting China’s policies were held in Bishkek from December 2018 to February 2019. The first one was held on December 20, 2018, near the Chinese Embassy. About 150 participants demanded to release ethnic Kyrgyz people from the so-called re-education […]
If the end of a year is a reason to sum up, the beginning is an opportunity to try to understand what might happen in the near future. Making any predictions is always a risk, but they allow to outline the range of key events that require close attention. Moreover, […]
Intellectual capital is seen as a vital strategic asset in the 21st century that contributes to firm performance and value creation. In the new “knowledge-based” economy, which began to develop in the 1990s, intellectual capital rather than physical capital has emerged as a significant factor in terms of potential future […]
The continuation of the military-political confrontation between Russia and the United States in 2019 increases the risk of the beginning of a new arms race and the collapse of the international strategic arms control system. A possible return to a Cold War style full-scale nuclear and missile race would inevitably […]
China has become the world’s second largest economy as a result of its sustainable and high economic growth. With its political, economic and military developments over the past few years, China is stepping forward to being a global superpower rather than a gradually rising country. Being the only superpower after […]
The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project was first initiated by Iran in mid-1990s in order to transport the Iranian gas through Pakistan to India. However, the idea itself was first proposed in the late 1950s in a scientific article published by the Military College of Engineering, Pakistan. The idea came […]
For quite a long time, issues related to climate change and its consequences have not received due attention in Kazakhstan, and virtually no fundamental scientific research on the current situation and possible scenarios of its development has been conducted. Although Kazakhstan ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in […]
On November 9, 2018, the northern Kazakh city of Petropavlovsk hosted the 15th forum of interregional cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia. The presidents of both countries, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Vladimir Putin, took part in the forum, as well as more than 250 Russian delegates, including the regional governors and the heads […]
In September 2013, at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke of the need for cooperation between Central Asia and China and proposed the development of the Silk Road Economic Belt, which would revive a land route from China to Europe via Central Asia. Further, in October 2013, […]