With Central Asia rising, John Lee’s visit was well timed

SCMP•Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 08:30 AM•2 min read

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...

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