The New 'Great Game': state & non-state competition

[davidbfpo]

I have reviewed the threads in this forum and created this new larger, mainly historical thread to cover the little reported, rarely watched by SWC competition in Central Asia, the 'stans, between external powers and within between crime, Islam and the state(s). The catalyst being what follows.

matters Afghan are excluded from this thread and appear elsewhere!

[davidbfpo]

A pair of China-based analysts on a trek around Central Asia report:http://raffaellopantucci.com/2012/09...wn-kazakhstan/

If you check the author's website there are a series of articles on the region.

[davidbfpo]

This blog examines China's evolving influence and role in Central Asia.

Link:http://chinaincentralasia.com/about/