May 19, 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday charted the course for China-Central Asia cooperation, calling for strengthening cooperation in various areas including industry and investment, enhancing connectivity and building energy development partnership with Central Asian countries. Meanwhile, the Chinese President also called for joint efforts to oppose external attempts to interfere in domestic affairs of regional countries and instigate "color revolutions" in the region. 

Experts hailed the summit as achieving a great success, as it has institutionalized top-level exchanges between leaders from China and the five Central Asian countries, created plentiful cooperation mechanisms that are set to release great cooperation potential between China and Central Asian countries, and reinforced security cooperation, which also demonstrated elevated political mutual trust between both sides. China and Central Asian countries have set a paragon  for regional cooperation and would inject much-needed positive energy into the world's peace, stability and development, they said.   

Rejecting foreign media's hyping of Russia-China competition in this region, experts said as external forces shored up their interference in Central Asia, China's enhanced cooperation with Central Asia benefits Russia and the region, and some foreign media's attempts to sow discord are futile as cooperations between the three sides are complementary, and there is no contradiction in China and Russia's cooperation with Central Asia. 

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