The perils of ignoring Eurasian instability

Volatile region has historically caused problems for the rest of the world

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A Kyrgyz policeman looks at a burnt armored personnel carrier outside the village of Kok-Tash near the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border in southwestern Kyrgyzstan in May 2021: Exchanges of fire continue to take place with casualties on both sides. © AP

Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and author of "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire." (Oxford University Press, April 2022)

As the world focuses on a possible clash between China and the West over Taiwan and war in Europe on the other, the parts in between are going up in flames.

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