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‘The Great Game’ comes to South Asia
Despite past failures, Washington is recasting its policy by increasingly involving South Asia, especially India, in Central Asian affairs. The US paints a picture of mutual prosperity through an interconnecting web of energy pipelines, as long as these do not advance Russia’s or China’s interests. This is where the problems begin.
Assistant secretary of state for the newly created Bureau of South Asian and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher said, “Our vision includes new energy routes that will ensure the next generation of South and Central Asian entrepreneurs have access to the resources they need to prosper. We want to give South Asians access to the vast and rapidly growing energy resources in Central Asia, whether they are oil and gas in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, thermal power in Uzbekistan, or hydropower in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.”
Boucher would be wrong to assume that Kazakhstan was desperately seeking new transit options.
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