AIDS EPIDEMIC AMONG XINJIANG’S UYGHURS
By Alim A. Seytoff (7/5/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKROUND: Heroin and AIDS were first only seen in Xinjiang, China in Western films beginning a decade ago. Marijuana and hashish have been common to the region for centuries. But drugs such as heroin and cocaine were introduced to Xinjiang only in the early 1990s from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle, which is thousands of miles away.
THE ARMY IN TAJIKISTAN: TEN YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
By Roger N. McDermott (3/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Whilst most of the early militaries in Central Asia were developed on the basis of the units in the Soviet Turkestan Military District, in Tajikistan the experience of military construction was unique, relying upon volunteer groups. The Tajik armed forces inherited little from Soviet army, military schools and training centers were entirely lacking. This greatly inhibited the speed at which suitable forces could be constructed.INTERNET LATEST BATTLEGROUND FOR CENTRAL ASIAN REPRESSION
By Bea Hogan (7/19/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In its short history on-line, the five Central Asian states have earned the dubious distinction of comprising one quarter of the world’s "enemies of the Internet," according to the Paris-based watchdog group Reporters Sans Frontiers. Throughout Central Asia, Telecommunications are tightly controlled. In Tajikistan, the state-run Telecom Technologies provides the country’s only Internet access and restricts web-access to Dushanbe, the capital.
CHINA FORCED TO EXPAND ROLE IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Ahmed Rashid (7/19/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: President Jiang Zemin's visits to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, his participation in the Shanghai Five summit meeting in Dushanbe, and the hard hitting Dushanbe Declaration to which China signed on demonstrates a new and more expansive Chinese foreign policy in the region. Only two weeks earlier, Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's visited China and was allowed an unprecedented visit to Xinjiang’s Islamic mecca Kashgar - the first foreign Muslim leader privileged to visit volatile Xinjiang. Despite China's repressive campaign against the Uyghurs and Iran's previous foreign policy of supporting oppressed Muslims everywhere, Khatami chose to praise Chinese policies in Xinjiang.
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.