On the 8th of June, Kazakhstan’s capital city Nursultan hosted the third annual Central Asia-China meeting according to the 5+1 format, which Beijing launched in 2020 during the Covid 19 pandemic. This meeting had a significant relevance this year, following the potential impact of the Ukraine-Russia crisis in the region, in order to better understand Chinese and Central Asian positions towards the Russian assertive policy in the post-Soviet space.
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