Central Asia: opportunities revisited

I first traveled to Almaty in 1998 as a very young investment banker keen to research a complex deal (they were never easy) related to a cross-border gas pipeline between Kazakhstan and China. This was before China’s Belt and Road Initiative took off, but was an early sign of what was coming. GDP in Kazakhstan […]

Central Asia’s New Silk Road: Game Changers

“No need to listen for the fall. This is the World’s end.” — Rudyard Kipling, Kim During a long, cold flight to Almaty in the late 1990s I sat sleepless reading Peter Hopkirk’s landmark history of the region, “The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia.” My colleagues and I were about to spend the […]