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🆕📷 Life in #Kazakhstan's major cities is highly digitised - from grocery shopping and transport payments to sightseeing and gov services 🔗 Check out our new #visualessay with photos captured during Oyuna Baldakova's field work👇 instagram.com/p/C8ZvSlXtzz5/ #GlobalChina #SilkRoad

Very excited to share my first academic article, written with Nick Jepson, on Chinese #StateCapital as a Partner for Resource-Based #StructuralTransformation? #BRI and Downstream Linkages in Bolivia and #Kazakhstan. It's open access! Digisilk link.springer.com/article/10.105…

🆕📸We're back with a new visual essay 🚧 From high-rises in #astana to the tangled cables of #phnompenh and an abandoned development project in #yangon, these photographs capture both the ambitions and challenges in these rapidly evolving #cityscapes 🔗instagram.com/p/C9wouvGtZQF

The #BRI has sparked a significant debate about its impact on host countries Our blog highlights key takeaways from a recent article that investigates #ChineseStateCapital role in #Bolivia's lithium/iron & #Kazakhstan's petrochemicals sectors ➡️ bit.ly/3zS2mvn

Fantastic event on #AI in Research organised by The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network featuring Edward Grefenstette, Herbie Bradley and Dr Kate Miltner #ECRN

Some more of my fieldwork photos now online 📷

Attending an excellent Europe-China #AI Forum today organised by Oxford Global Society and Tsinghua University

Join us next week at #ChinaWeek2024

The #DSR has been widely discussed in media and academia but a clear definition of it remains elusive An article in The China Quarterly by Elisa Oreglia and Weidi Zheng begins to address this issue Our new blog post highlights the key findings: bit.ly/3ZVksYt

Excited to have participated in today's panel on the Chinese model of infrastructure development! Grateful for the opportunity to share my research on the #BRI and #DSR in Kazakhstan and look forward to more insightful discussions during the #ChinaWeek2024...

Thomas White presenting his new book on 'China's camel country' about his research on pastoralism in Inner Mongolia #ChinaWeek2024

Those interested in Kazakhstan tech landscape, highly recommend this new open access article by Oyuna Baldakova

Here's a short teaser to our article Beyond geopolitics: Agency and #modularity in mobile communications in #Kazakhstan,' which explores how firms navigate—and sometimes resist—binaries like U.S.-China #tech #decoupling

At the #EnergySecurity & Post-COP29 Conference organised by Caspian Policy Center (CPC): Ambassador of Azerbaijan speaking on COP-29 being a regional Caspian effort & giving impetus for the first institutionalised discussion & region-wide agreements signed on #greentransition & #greeneconomy

Russia's Sber and China's Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (SAIRI) to cooperate on research and regulation of #AI systems, as well as on education and training of AI specialists. akm.ru/news/sber_i_sh…

On February 11, I’ll be giving a talk at the Oxford Internet Institute on "Beyond Geopolitics: Agency and Modularity in Mobile Telecommunications in Kazakhstan." Do join the talk and spread the word: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…. Oxford Internet Institute, Digisilk

Explore our new #visualessay on #Khorgos, one of the largest dry ports in the world and a key trade hub connecting Asia and Europe 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩-𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙮: 𝙆𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙤𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚 🚆🌍 Photos by Oyuna Baldakova

🚨🌐Join us tomorrow, March 12, from 5–6:30 PM (GMT) for an insightful seminar hosted by LSE Social Policy Global China Working Group Oyuna Baldakova will present her working paper: "Digital Bridges: (In)formality, Digital Platforms, and Cross-Border Trade in Kazakhstan." #GlobalChina

Excited to be discussing my new draft paper, titled "Digital Bridges: (In)formality, Online Platforms, and Cross-Border Trade between China and Kazakhstan," at Cambridge MIASU seminar today! If you're around, do join us in person! miasu.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/lunchti…