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the changes of the epoch they live in. Since the end of the Cold War, Central
Asia has, once again, attracted the attention of geopoliticians and of neighbouring powers
– China and Russia principally and the European Union also, yet to a lesser degree. But the
setting is not anymore of competing expansion of influence as it was for the “Great Game”
between the British and the Russians in the nineteenth century. The articles of this section
present on these matters two perspectives: Professor Feng Yujun, specialist of the international
relations of Russia, presents first a Chinese point of view on the peaceful development of the
Sino-Central Asian relations. He is followed by Nargis Kassenova, Assistant Professor writing
from Kazakstan, who explains the new European Union strategy on the region.
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