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Among the regional powers, China remains the leading player, which has a strong tendency to increase its influence on global processes and essentially stipulates the development in the republics of Central Asia This paper attempts to discuss the current situation and main prospects for the development of economic relations between China and the states of Central Asia, three of which (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and ·or Enayatollah Yazdani is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Isfahan/Iran t Dr Vladimir Paramonov is a Post-doctoral Fellow at Tashkent State Institute for Oriental Studies /Uzbekistan ©Institute for Political and International Studies 48 11-!E IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Tajikistan) have a common border with China stretching for more than 2,800 kilometers.
©Institute for Political and International Studies 56 THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Table 7: The Structure of the Trade between China & Uzbekistan (2003}8 {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} As is the case with other countries of Central Asia, it is clear that Sino-Uzbek trade also has a certain amount (although negligible) of shuttle trade, which the official statistics take either little account of or fail to take into account altogether.
Characteristics In sum, the current format of bilateral commercial and economic relations between China and the five Central Asian states can be characterized as follows: • a significant volume of trade between China and Kazakhstan, and a relatively low level between China and the other states in the region; ©Institute for Political and International Studies 60 THE !RANIA:\!