China aims to deepen influence in Central Asia with new railway project
Washington – After more than two decades of negotiations, construction on a major railway project linking China and Central Asia is set to begin in July. The more than 400-kilometre-long, China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Project, or CKU, is planned to start in the city of Kashgar in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region, crossing into Kyrgyzstan via the … Read more