China Races For Energy Safety To keep Pace With GDP Development, Part Two
With Putin's star rising, Russia has aspired to block China's power ambitions in Central Asia. When China embarked on a Sino-Kazak strategy, Boris Yeltsin was still president. Since then, Putin and his internal circle of Chekists (named after the Soviet Union's first secret police squads) have begun tightening the noose across the ex-Soviet states. The mandate [...]