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Central Asia Could Be the Key to Driving a Wedge Between Russia and China

The reality is that almost regardless of what happens in Ukraine over the next few weeks, the United States can do something about the biggest strategic question of the war—which is whether the fighting will push Russia and China together into a great-power bloc dominating Eurasia, or whether it will pull them apart, reducing either’s ability to undermine the American global order.

How the West Can Divide China and Russia | Time


What is Eurasia? And Why Does it Matter? - Foreign Policy Research Institute (fpri.org)

For much of the last several centuries, Eurasia has been divided between several great civilizations: Russian, Turkic, Persian, Chinese, and others. This session will focus on the interaction of Turkic and Russian groups in central and western Eurasia. It will note that cultural and religious divides often did not overlap with political boundaries, and will explore Eurasia’s multicultural and multiethnic borderlands before the founding of modern nation-states


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