Shifting Sands: Chinese encroachment in Central Asia and challenges to US supremacy in the Gulf
By James M. Dorsey
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China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals.
A joint Tajik-Chinese military exercise in a Tajik region bordering on China’s troubled north-western region of Xinjiang su…