China’s increasing hold over Kazakh oil

Kazakhstan is about to become one of the world’s top oil producers, and as the scramble for its resources intensifies, the country’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, says the game is fair, and that Russia, China and the West are all welcome to invest.

“The United States, Russia and China are all interested in Kazakhstan, and we don’t want to allow a conflict of interest here,” Mr Nazarbayev told the BBC.