Today Kyrgyzstan is swarming with thousands of Chinese farmers and ubiquitous eateries serving Chinese food. Hooked on low-interest loans given by Beijing, the Central Asian nation of 6.2 million people looks like the province of China.
As far as Sino-Tajik relations are concerned, in 2011 Tajikistan ceded 4% or 1,158 square kilometers of its land in the remote Pamir mountain range, the size of Albania, to China on the disputed section of the border between the two countries. Reportedly, 100,000 Chinese workers flooded this former Soviet state to build roads. In Tajikistan, a Chinese company is majority owner of the largest gold mine.
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