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Central Asia faces debt risk alongside Silk Road gains

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CENTRAL ASIA

Central Asian gains and risk from the Belt and Road Initiative

Crimean bridge expansion enhances Russian control

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RUSSIA/UKRAINE

RUSSIA/UKRAINE: Crimea bridge enhances Russian control

Turkmen gas plans will balance China and Russia

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TURKMENISTAN

Turkmen leaders rarely visit foreign countries. The visit to Beijing aimed at securing Chinese commitment to completing a new natural gas pipeline through Tajikistan and…

CPEC may boost agriculture prospects in Pakistan

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PAKISTAN

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's impact on agriculture.

Europe’s Three Seas Initiative will make slow progress

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EUROPE

The war in Ukraine has highlighted 3SI, a project that aims to raise investment in Central-Eastern Europe, as a means to build resilience on the eastern flank of the EU and NATO…

Herd behaviour may prompt fears of LNG over-supply

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INTERNATIONAL

LNG investment outlook.

China's virus diplomacy has limited pull in Balkans

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BALKANS

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in the Balkans have mostly failed to deliver on promises of improving infrastructure. Chinese prestige in the region now relies…

Baku seeks to widen its contacts in Balkans

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BALKANS/AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijan's rising profile in South-eastern Europe, both as hydrocarbons supplier and source of investment.

Russian stance makes Japan islands deal impossible

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RUSSIA/JAPAN

As Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet shapes its approach, the major outstanding bilateral issues with Russia remain unresolved: the dispute over the South Kuril…

Poor infrastructure will weigh on South African growth

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SOUTH AFRICA

South African infrastructure.