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Rahmon’s four-day state visit also produced more than $8 billion in projected investment deals and confirmed Beijing’s displacement of Moscow as Dushanbe’s principal economic patron.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed the China-Tajikistan Treaty on Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 12, the political capstone of Rahmon’s four-day state visit.
The two leaders also signed a joint statement on deepening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in the new era and witnessed the signing of roughly 31 intergovernmental cooperation documents covering trade, investment, artificial intelligence, green mining, agriculture, culture, education, housing, inspection and quarantine, and market supervision.
The partnership had been elevated to “comprehensive strategic cooperative” status during Xi’s July 2024 visit to Dushanbe; the treaty now anchors it in a binding instrument.
