China Is Finally Making Progress On The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway – Analysis

By Niva Yau Tsz Yan*

China has struggled to gain support from its Central Asian neighbors to build the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway since the 1990s.

The CKU railway is crucial to China for two interconnected purposes—to advance its geopolitical interests and to secure favorable relations with Central Asian...