China's Ethnic Minorities and RelationsPolitics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle EastCentral Asia Education and Culture

Eithne Thomson

2026.1.2Asian Affairs

DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2025.2607889

Abstract

Backlash challenges the concept of China’s growing influence in Central Asia. As the authors – both leading figures in the ‘Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs’ – show, Beijing’s rise in the reg...

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THOMSON, Eithne. Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in central asia. Asian Affairs, 2026, 57(1): 204–206.