Uzbekistan’s New China Policy
Opportunities and Limits of Cooperation
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Abstract
Under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has taken on a cautious reform course. The economy in particular has opened up. Cooperation with China is benefiting from this. Trade volume and Chinese direct investment are growing. Chinese high-tech companies have gotten involved in the country’s education sector. In the fight against poverty, Tashkent has oriented itself toward the Chinese model. Close cooperation has even developed in the sensitive areas of internal and external security. But the political elites are strangers to one another. The Uzbek leadership is trying to avoid becoming too dependent on China.
(Osteuropa 8-10/2024, pp. 105–116)