Geo-Strategic Significance of Kazakhstan in Central Asia #Russia #China #BRI #CSTO #(Part-5)

Kazakhstan is an important country both regional and global because of its: geostrategic position in Central Asia. Kazakhstan shares borders with two of the most important countries in this part of the globe: 1. Russian Federation and 2. China, while is one of the countries included on the New Silk Road map. Kazakhstan dominates the Central Asia region and the trade routes between east and west. It is connected with the European continent through its small portion of the territory on the west bank of the Ural River, located on the eastern edge of Europe. Largest landlocked country, and the ninth-largest in the world, with an area of 2.171. million sq km, bigger than the Western Europe territory. It is bordering China, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. With a total of 12.185 km of boundaries, Kazakhstan has the longest common border with Russia – 6,846 km; 2,203 km with Uzbekistan; 1,530 km of common border with China, 1,224 km with Kyrgyzstan, and the shortest – 379 km, with Turkmenistan. Reforms have begun to be implemented after the election of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in June 2019. Tokayev supports a 1. Culture of opposition, 2. Public assembly, and 3. Loosening rules on forming political parties. The implosion of the Soviet Union left behind not one but four nuclear countries, a real concern for the international community responded with the regional and international security. In 1991 Kazakhstan closed its nuclear test site and by 1996, it removed all its nuclear warheads, becoming the first state in history to complete voluntary nuclear disarmament. Kazakhstan formerly had 1,410 Soviet strategic nuclear warheads placed on its territory and an undisclosed number of tactical nuclear weapons. One of the Soviet Union's two major nuclear test sites was located at Semipalatinsk, where at least 460 nuclear tests took place.

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