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  • Yi Wang
    Yi Wang “No conflict or war ends on the battlefield, but rather at the negotiating table. China supports the convening at an appropriate time of an international peace conference that is acceptable to the Russian and Ukrainian sides with the participation of all parties equally. There, peace plans can be discussed, fairly, to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible. We must always insist on an objective and just position, there is no magic wand to solve the crisis. All parties should start with themselves.” 11 hours ago
  • Boris Pistorius
    Boris Pistorius “Russia is already producing weapons and ammunition beyond its need for conducting an aggressive war against Ukraine. With increased spending on armaments and the streamlining of the military economy, a significant portion or part of what is produced no longer goes to the front line, but ends up in warehouses. Now you can be naive and say he's doing it just out of caution. As a sceptical person, I would say in this case that he's doing it because he has plans or could have them.” 16 hours ago
  • Emmanuel Macron
    Emmanuel Macron “There is a risk our Europe could die. We are not equipped to face the risks. Russia must not be allowed to win in Ukraine. Europeans should give preference to buying European military equipment. We must produce more, we must produce faster, and we must produce as Europeans.” 16 hours ago
  • Aleksey Kushch
    Aleksey Kushch “By including the Ukraine package in a bill that also provides military aid to Israel and Taiwan, the US shows the world that it equals Ukraine's and Israel's archenemies - Russia and Iran. This is a mighty geopolitical slap for China. As the trade turnover between Russia and China rose to $240bn last year, the more the US pushes Beijing, the more discounts for oil and gas China gets from Russia.” 17 hours ago
  • Nikolay Mitrokhin
    Nikolay Mitrokhin “The aid is a surprisingly exact match of Ukrainian military's needs that mostly has a deficit of air defence weaponry of all kinds and also needs to replenish its arsenal of tank destroyers, anti-infantry landmines and other kinds of ammunition. It's obviously needed to deliver infantry and other ground troops to the front line but not for an advance - otherwise the US would have given tanks.” 17 hours ago
  • Ihor Romanenko
    Ihor Romanenko “The aid can improve the situation on the 1,000km-long (620-mile-long) front line. But the aid looks like a handout to show that we haven't been forgotten, no more than that. They're always late, they hit the brakes, they're afraid. All of that is done to catch up [with Russia], but wars are won by those who act ahead of time.” 17 hours ago
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#Central Asia

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Albert Park
Albert Park

“We've been supporting exactly this type of integration between China and Central Asia. Under that framework, we're trying to reduce trade barriers among the countries, harmonise trading standards to promote better integration, and just more forums where government officials can talk and try to develop standards to promote more trade.”

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Asian Development Bank Chief Economist
18 May 2023 1 2
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Temur Umarov
Temur Umarov

“Before the war, Uzbekistan was one step closer to joining the Eurasian Economic Union and Mirziyoyev [Shavkat Mirziyoyev] even participated in a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. [But] I think that now Uzbekistan will try to distance itself from Moscow. I think that Usmanov [Uzbek-born Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov] is thinking about his own future. His business was mostly possible to prosper in the previous Russia, now everything has changed because of the sanctions. He probably looks for an opportunity to change his main location, and turn from a Russian oligarch with Uzbek roots into an Uzbek oligarch. The way Central Asia thinks about Russia has changed. While before, Russia was seen as a source of stability, it now seems that its presence in a very sensitive security dimension has become a weakness for the regional stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity. I think that Central Asian governments will seek to minimise the influence of Russia, which will be difficult to do, but they have no choice since it has become an unpredictable power.”

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Fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center
25 Mar 2022 10 3
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Kevork Oskanian
Kevork Oskanian

“This unrest is on an entirely different scale - encompassing the whole country - and shows the extent to which previous stability was superficial, and founded on a division of the spoils by a small, unaccountable elite. The Kazakh protests are not just a warning to the Nazarbayev clan that created a patronal, hydrocarbons-based dictatorship. Other dictators across the region with similar patronal systems will be watching warily, not least [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.”

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Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom
06 Jan 2022 12 2
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

“We face serious tasks in the Afghan direction, especially after the Americans have pulled out from that country. The developments in Afghanistan prompt the need for additional measures to ensure Russia's security on the southern frontiers and provide assistance to Central Asian states as our allies, which perceive Russia as a guarantor of stability in the region. It is necessary to continue working in this mode, taking measures to prevent uncontrolled flows of refugees and prevent the infiltration of terrorists and other criminal elements through our border.”

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President of Russia
18 Nov 2021 6 2
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Temur Umarov
Temur Umarov

“For China, security on its border is crucial and is part of its core interests in Central Asia. Expanding its security presence in Tajikistan is the most effective tool that it possesses right now.”

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Expert on China-Central Asia relations at the Carnegie Moscow Center
27 Oct 2021 2 2
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Raffaello Pantucci
Raffaello Pantucci

“This decision to build and jointly staff a facility is one of only a few known examples for China around the world. The fact that we keep seeing this activity in Tajikistan shows the level of Chinese concern towards Afghanistan and the region. This highlights how Central Asia is going to be a major focus of Chinese attention. Going forward, Beijing may struggle to avoid getting itself entangled in regional security problems.”

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Senior associate fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute
27 Oct 2021 3 3
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Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney

“An opportunistic China is certain to exploit the new opening to make strategic inroads into mineral-rich Afghanistan and deepen its penetration of Pakistan, Iran, and Central Asia.”

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Professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi
23 Aug 2021 4 1
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Ivan Klyszcz
Ivan Klyszcz

“The [Taliban] takeover doesn't change Moscow's fundamental policy toward Afghanistan: to keep the instability of the civil war away from Central Asia. It's more about making sure they have privileged or constant communication with the Taliban, especially where it comes to the borders with Central Asia, and the fight with [Islamic State].”

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Researcher and political scientist at the University of Tartu (Estonia)
17 Aug 2021 4 4
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Anton Barbashin
Anton Barbashin

“We might be looking at the beginning of wider security cooperation over Afghanistan between China, Russia, and the Central Asian states. How this progresses will show if the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] is a real organization capable of deterring the inevitable risks coming from Afghanistan or not.”

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Editorial director at the online journal Riddle Russia
09 Aug 2021 5 3
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Xin Zhang
Xin Zhang

“This exercise is a natural progression of stronger military ties between the two countries, but the situation in Afghanistan adds an important new layer. Both sides are worried about spillover into Central Asia and the new types of security challenges to the region that it could pose. This kind of exercise shows a move towards a closed but flexible collaboration between two militaries without entering into a full-scale alliance.”

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Associate professor at the Center for Russian Studies at Shanghai's East China Normal University
09 Aug 2021 3 3
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Niva Yau
Niva Yau

“We are seeing some sophisticated statements from the Taliban about working with China. It shows that there is interest from the Taliban in gaining legitimacy and recognition from China. The Taliban know that if they get control [of Afghanistan] they will need recognition of statehood and legitimacy from its neighbors. That includes Central Asia [and] China.”

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Resident researcher at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Academy and a fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute
14 Jul 2021 3 3
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Bradley Jardine
Bradley Jardine

“We keep talking about this notion that there is a strict division in Central Asia where Russia deals with security and China does economics, but actually that division is fading. China is already a hard power in the region. Lots of people talk about China and Russia competing already, but actually our research shows that the competition hasn't really started yet. As China continues to grow as an arms supplier, it will have to eat into Russia's share and that's where we can begin to see some tensions between Beijing and Moscow.”

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Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
28 May 2020 2 3
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