#环顾地球, who else can help Turkmenistan solve its problems? #
This question is interesting because Turkmenistan is currently one of the only "permanent neutral countries" in the world to be certified by the United Nations, and the other one, as we all know, is not as good as before, but it is famous.
The problems that Turkmenistan needs to solve are not difficult to see on the map: the problems of survival, development and security.
First of all, the economic pillars of Turkmenistan are mainly cotton and oil and gas.
For a country with a desert area of more than 80%, the development of the cotton industry, the most important thing is water resources, the Soviet period to build the Karakum Grand Canal up to 1450 kilometers, it is with this canal, so that Turkmenistan has the advantage of irrigation, in the desert to develop agriculture.
The problem is that the canal's water comes from the Amu Darya River, which originates from China's Pamir Plateau and flows through Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan, and is also the boundary river of the next few countries, and the only countries that can cut off the water source are China and half of Iran.
And oil and gas resources, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the final end user is China, as long as it can stably export oil and gas to China, it is a stable income.
If water resources and oil and gas pipelines are not limited, turkmenistan's survival will not be a problem.
Speaking of development, for Turkmenistan, the ceiling of development is the infrastructure construction left by the Soviet Union. Today's Russia has no way to invest heavily in real money, so without the assistance of the Eastern powers in infrastructure construction, Turkmenistan's economic ceiling will soon be reached.
In terms of security, it is not difficult to see from the weapons displayed at the military parade in Turkmenistan that many of them originate from the great powers of the East. It is not difficult to see the enormous influence of the Great Powers of the East in ensuring the security of Turkmenistan. However, there are two points worthy of attention, one is that Russia is extremely sensitive to the affairs of the former Soviet Union, and although it will not explicitly oppose the influence of the Eastern powers in Central Asia, it is difficult to get its cooperation. The second is the infiltration of the United States and the West and their so-called non-governmental organizations in Central Asia, inciting civil unrest through online public opinion. But if this is the case, with the current situation, it is more likely that the eastern powers and Russia will join forces to extinguish it.