BISHKEK (TCA) — China and Russia should strengthen the synergy of Beijing-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Chinese President Xi Jinping said during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the fourth Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in the Russian port city of Vladivostok on September 11, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

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KABUL (TCA) — Senior Chinese and Pakistani officials in a meeting in Islamabad decided to accelerate and extend the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor towards Afghanistan, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported with reference to Indian media.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the EU support Tajikistan in introduction of a unified statistical system for agricultural production data in the country, vital for agricultural planning and policy-making, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said on its website.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Central Asian Political Exiles database project helps the Central Asian dissident community to get protection from authoritarian governments at home and get political asylum abroad. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska, originally published by Eurasianet:

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KABUL (TCA) — Beijing and Kabul are poised to deepen military relations by sending troops from Afghanistan to train in China, according to the Afghan ambassador to China, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report released on September 9.

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