Daily Memo: China Boosts Presence in Central Asia and Warns of Potential Unrest

Beijing is signaling the rising threat of a color revolution in the future.

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Chinese presence. Kazakhstan’s trade turnover with China increased by 20.5 percent in the first half of 2023, driven partly by an 87.3 percent rise in trade with China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which accounts for 39.1 percent of trade between the two countries. Meanwhile, according to Kazakh media, the first Kazakh-Chinese business forum was recently […]

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