As the world slides deeper into multi-polarity, Central Asia – long on the periphery of US foreign policy – is becoming a pivotal arena of geopolitical competition. Landlocked, resource-rich, and geopolitically sandwiched between Russia, China, Iran and South Asia, the region is a crossroads for energy flows, rare earth exports and emerging trade corridors. Amid […]The post Trump’s Central Asia gambit risks backfiring appeared first on Asia Times.