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Why India Should Stop Trying to "Reconnect" With Central Asia

PM Narendra Modi is on a bilateral visit to Uzbekistan and is attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan this week, his first major Central Asia trip since touring all five republics in 2015. An opinion piece argues that India must adopt a realistic, pragmatic foreign policy toward Central Asia, acknowledging the region's growing geopolitical agency and India's geographical constraints. It…