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SUMMARY:FCCC Online Talk. Backlash: China's Struggle for Influence in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:China has emerged as one of Central Asia’s most important investors\, creditors\, and security partners since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But Beijing’s growing influence has also generated an unexpected response: grassroots resistance\, public distrust\, and anti-China protests across the region.\nDrawing on more than a decade of fieldwork\, Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon examine how China’s expanding presence is experienced on the ground—and why Beijing’s influence is far more contested and fragile than conventional accounts often suggest. Their book\, Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia\, reveals a China that miscalculates\, alienates local communities\, encounters political and social constraints\, and is increasingly forced to adapt its approach to local expectations. \n\nEdward Lemon. Research Assistant Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and president of the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. He previously held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and earned his PhD from the University of Exeter. He is co-author of Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2025)\, and his research focuses on China and Russia’s relations with Central Asia\, authoritarian governance\, security\, religion\, and migration. \nBradley Jardine. Managing Director of the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and a former Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A former foreign correspondent based in Moscow\, Beijing\, and the South Caucasus\, he has spent the past decade researching China’s growing influence and its implications for international security and human rights. He is co-author of Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia and a leading expert on transnational repression\, particularly China’s repression of Uyghurs abroad.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-online-talk-backlash-chinas-struggle-for-influence-in-central-asia/
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