Dec 23,2015 Special Forum Russia, China, and Central Asia: Time for Decision When the Soviet Union disintegrated, one might have expected Central Asia to become a natural region of rivalry between Moscow, which could no longer exercise formal political control over the region, and Beijing, whose rising power was no longer contained by a sealed Soviet border reinforced by powerful armed forces. But China and Russia have […] Richard Weitz Arab Spring , EEU , Regionalism , Silk Road Economic Belt , Uighur militancy