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independence. Chinese companies own nearly a quarter of Kazakhstan’s oil production.Official customs data show Kazakhstan earned $10.1 billion, or 17 percent of its total export revenues, selling goods to China last year, pushing Russia into third place after Italy.“Let’s look at China as a strong partner that will in turn make us stronger, that will never let us sleep,“ said Zhdanova.Chinese expansion, however, has inflamed passions within the former Soviet region, where beats by dre opposition activists say governments are giving up too many precious resources and local residents bristle at the thought of any mass influx of Chinese workers.Twenty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, the migrant workers whose remittances contribute 40 percent beats by dre white of Tajikistan’s GDP still flock mainly to Russia to join their Central Asian colleagues doing the menial jobs that help to keep Russia’s $1.5 trillion economy ticking over.The countries may have little in common but their shared Soviet past. But old habits die hard.Paralyzed from the hip down since she was 13, the 27-year-old handcyclist, who has just signed with the Rabobank women’s cheap beats by dre professional cycling team to compete as a top-class able-bodied athlete, was hit by a bicycle last year while training in her wheelchair for the 2012 London Paralympics.While recovering from the trauma, van der Vorst’s feet started to tingle and miraculously she began to move them again. From that point on she spent months in the hospital and in the