The Corridor That Never Slept: Kazakhstan and China Between Trade, Infrastructure and Payments
For more than two thoFor more than two thousand years, the territory of modern Kazakhstan has connected China with Central Asia and Europe. Today, caravans have been replaced by container trains, pipelines and digital payment rails, but the corridor remains deeply shaped by history, human ties and economic asymmetry.usand years, the territory of modern Kazakhstan has connected China with the wider Eurasian continent. Today, it carries container trains, oil, gas, uranium, investment and payment flows.