For a region located far from the current major global crises, Central Asia has attracted an unusual amount of attention from the great powers in recent years. While the active presence of China and Russia is nothing new, the attention from the United States is not so standard. With the United States having withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan and stopped supporting democratic reforms around the world, it might seem that Central Asia should have dropped to the bottom of Washington’s list of priorities. Yet President Donald Trump does not just praise the region’s leaders on camera and write posts about them on Truth Social, he also calls them, meets with them in person, and promises to visit. Nor is the rapprochement limited to diplomatic gestures: the two sides have boasted of deals worth hundreds of billions
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