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March 15, 2013

Will Beijing Step Up in Central Asia?

Deirdre Tynan, Global Public Square

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China is spending billions of dollars in Central Asia, and is hoping for two things in return. The first is natural resources measured in cubic meters of gas, barrels of oil and metric tons of minerals. The second is more complicated and harder to measure: Beijing wants Central Asia states to be good neighbors – stable, predictable and not given to extremes.

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