China Deepens Economic Integration with Central Asia

Middle East crisis reinforces that economic resilience now depends on diversifying across multiple trade routes

By: Emil Avdaliani

The crisis in the Middle East has reinforced for China that, amid ongoing geopolitical fragmentation, economic resilience now depends on diversifying across multiple trade routes rather than relying too heavily on any single corridor. The immediate concern, of course, is energy. Prolonged disruption to the Strait of Hormuz, which appea…