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BRI in Central Asia: People-to-People Projects

Written by

Roman Vakulchuk
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Research group on climate and energy
Indra Overland
Research Professor
Farkhod Aminjonov
Alina Abylkasymova
Bahtiyor Eshchanov
Daniyar Moldokanov

Ed.

Summary:

Along with financing hard infrastructure projects, Beijing also promotes soft power projects in the form of people-to-people initiatives. However, such projects are low priority within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Central Asia. The Confucius Institutes, which appear to be an important vehicle for Chinese soft power in the region, are not directly linked to BRI and were launched before and independently of BRI.

Themes

  • Diplomacy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia

Written by

Roman Vakulchuk
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Research group on climate and energy
Indra Overland
Research Professor
Farkhod Aminjonov
Alina Abylkasymova
Bahtiyor Eshchanov
Daniyar Moldokanov