Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and author of the forthcoming "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire" (Oxford University Press, April 2022).
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been received differently around the world, especially in Central Asia, where the two most powerful countries have both expressed clear signs of concern at Moscow's behavior. There is an opportunity here for the West if they have the agility to take it.
