CHINA\'S QUEST FOR EURASIA\'S NATURAL RESOURCES
By Ariel Cohen (2/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Chinese government has designated oil, grain and water as strategic commodities with maximum influence on economic development. While China is the world\'s fifth largest oil producer, demand is outgrowing economic production. By 2020, China will not be able to supply itself with oil, iron, steel, aluminum, sulfur, and other minerals.TAJIKISTAN’S ELECTIONS: EVEN A BAD PEACE IS BETTER THAN A JUST WAR
By Dr. Yokubjon Abdukholikov (3/15/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The year 1997 was one of reconciliation for Tajikistan’s opposing political forces and began a period of social stability in the war-torn country. For the first time since the civil war, representatives of opposition parties decided to administer the government together. A referendum led to constitutional amendments that overturned the law banning United Tajik Opposition political parties and reformed the election system that constituted the legal basis of the recent presidential and parliamentary elections.
AZERBAIJAN AND TURKMENISTAN UNTIE THE CASPIAN GAS KNOT
By Dr. Robert M. Cutler (3/15/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Gas sales represent about two-fifths of the Turkmenistan’s total exports. These exports increased by two-thirds in the first half of 1999, from 13.3 in the first half of 1998 to 22.
COMMUNISTS WIN ELECTION IN KYRGYZSTAN’S "ISLAND OF DEMOCRACY"
By Gulsara Osorova (3/15/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: According to the new Parliamentary Election Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, fifteen seats from a total of sixty are allocated to political parties and movements in the Legislative Assembly. At least 5% of the votes must be won in order to get a seat. The remaining forty-five seats in the Legislative Assembly are allocated to members of the Assembly of People’s Representatives.
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