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  • Wang Wenbin
    Wang Wenbin “China is not the creator of or a party to the Ukraine Crisis. We have been on the side of peace and dialogue and committed to promoting peace talks. We actively support putting in place a balanced, effective and sustainable European security architecture. Our fair and objective position and constructive role have been widely recognized. 'Let the person who tied the bell on the tiger untie it,' to quote a Chinese saying. Our message to the US: stop shifting the blame on China; do not try to drive a wedge between China and Europe; and it is time to stop fueling the flame and start making real contribution to finding a political solution to the Ukraine crisis.” 12 hours ago
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    Korean Central News Agency “On May 17, the North Korean Missile General Bureau conducted a test launch of a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a new navigation system of autonomous guidance. The test launch confirmed the accuracy and reliability of the system. The launch was carried out as part of the regular activities of the North Korean Missile General Bureau and subordinate defense research institutes for the active development of weapons technology.” 12 hours ago
  • Yang Moo-jin
    Yang Moo-jin “It is part of North Korea's propaganda approach to develop a voice in global affairs. Kim's statement comes amid Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping holding talks in Beijing, the West pressuring North Korea and Russia with sanctions and South Korea planning to stage Ulchi Freedom Shiled, a joint annual military drill with the U.S. in August. It may be true that North Korea is honing existing weapons to attack Seoul, but we cannot rule out the possibility of the country pulling weapons from its stocks and shipping them to Russia after further testing and deploying.” 12 hours ago
  • Park Won-gon
    Park Won-gon “Kim's [Kim Yo-jong syster of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un] statement suggests that North Korea is concerned about international sanctions. I believe sanctions are still an effective tool. North Korea fears that if it admits its arms dealings with Russia, it may turn its European allies into enemies.” 12 hours ago
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    Kim Yo-jong “We have no intention to export our military technical capabilities to any country or open them to the public. Our tactical weapons, including multiple rocket launchers and missiles, will be used to prevent Seoul from inventing any idle thinking.” 13 hours ago
  • Frank Kendall
    Frank Kendall “China has fielded a number of space capabilities designed to target our forces. And we're not going to be able operate in the Western Pacific successfully unless we can defeat those. China had tripled its network of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites since 2018.” 13 hours ago
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    Ants Kiviselg “The Russian Armed Forces are advancing on the recently opened Kharkiv front, but their pace is slowing down. This and the nature of their behaviour rather indicate a desire to create a buffer zone. Russian troops have attacked and destroyed important bridges in the area of Vovchansk, which creates a natural barrier between Ukrainian and Russian forces. This is more an indication of the intention of Russian forces to build a defensive line than to create a bridgehead for an advance on Kharkiv.” 22 hours ago
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    Vladimir Putin “Russia is ready and able to continuously power the Chinese economy, businesses, cities and towns with affordable and environmentally clean energy.” 22 hours ago
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    Alexey Muraviev “There are limits to the two nations' ties, despite their insistence that it is limitless. The limits are that the two countries don't have a formal alliance agreement. To me, that's very clearly a sign that there are limitations to what seems to be a limitless relationship. Neither side is prepared to unconditionally commit to support each other on issues like Ukraine.” 22 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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