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🇺🇸Central Asia is adapting its entire ideological agenda to impress one man: Donald Trump.
The recent C5+1 summit was a new high point in US-Central Asian ties. But is this rapprochement real, or just risk?
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Temur Umarov 马铁木
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Temur Umarov 马铁木
@TUmarov
Fellow @CarnegieRussia | Alumnus of the @CarnegieChina Young Ambassadors & the @CarnegieEndow Central Asian Futures programs
- Uzbekistan becomes the first Central Asian country to openly support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and condemn "military actions and agression"
00:00 - President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to Vladimir Putin: "I ask you not to treat the Central Asian countries as if it is the former Soviet Union. Every country has it's own problems, traditions..."
00:00 - 🇺🇦🇰🇿Kazakhstan set up 2 Yurts of Invincibility in Bucha & Kyiv, there are plans to set them up in other cities of Ukraine. Russia is furious w/ another "stab in its back" from an ally. But Moscow doesn't understand that its aggression makes ties between the 🇺🇦🇰🇿 ppl stronger 🧵
- This year Xi Jinping did not congratulate his friend Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday. But two days ago Xi sent an official letter to Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon on his 70th birthday.
- The average age of decision-makers in post-Soviet countries: 🇺🇦 UKR 44,7 🇦🇲 ARM 47,3 🇱🇹 LTU 47,3 🇹🇲 TKM 48 🇲🇩 MDA 49 🇪🇪 EST 49 🇬🇪 GEO 50,1 🇰🇬 KGZ 52,9 🇹🇯 TAJ 53,4 🇰🇿 KAZ 53,9 🇱🇻 LVA 55,1 🇧🇾 BLR 57 🇺🇿 UZB 59,6 🇦🇿 AZE 61,4 🇷🇺 RUS 63,4
- 🇰🇿🇷🇺 Kazakhstan halts arms exports for a year. The Kazakh government did not give a reason for its decision. But Russian pro-gov telegram channels crow about this as if it's their achievement. A mini thread about what is happening between Kazakhstan and Russia 🧵🔽
- 🇨🇳🇰🇿Xi Jinping: "No matter how the international situation changes, we will continue to resolutely support Kazakhstan in protecting its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity"
- Xi Jinping apparently didn't join other leaders for the evening program of the SCO summit.
- 🍉 Monument to watermelon somewhere near Jum qishloq, southern Uzbekistan.
- A hastily deleted post by 🇷🇺ex-president Dmitry Medvedev suggesting that after Ukraine, Moscow might turn its attention to the fate of Kazakhstan, was taken at face value by many. Could Russia really enter into conflict with another of its neighbors? 🧵 carnegieendowment.org/eurasiainsight…
- Replying to @TUmarovThe downside of this strategy is Russia's unpredictability. Many in Russia are already talking about the "denazification" of Kazakhstan. However, Kazakhstan believes it has time while all of Russia's energy and resources are concentrated on the invasion of Ukraine.
- Replying to @steveswerdlowYes, will agree that from all CA countries Uzbekistan has more freedom when it comes to relations with Russia as it is not a member of any Russia-led integrational projects and managed to keep the distance (considering they don't share a border). But it's still a bold speech, imo
- Replying to @TUmarovThe initiative was also supported by the 🇺🇦Kazakhstani diaspora. More than 60k ethnic Kazakhs live in 🇺🇦& more than 300k Ukrainians live in 🇰🇿(in the 1920s there were over 1.3m Ukrainians in 🇰🇿). Thousands of families are the backbone of 🇺🇦🇰🇿 ties: youtu.be/5DT-w-hxxYY
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