ABSTRACT
Chinese structural power over knowledge in Kyrgyzstan is expanding through concerted efforts on the Chinese government's part and through indirect means of self-regulation on the Kyrgyz side. China's structural power contributes to structural violence within Kyrgyzstan's domestic economy in terms of underdeveloped manufacturing and production and stagnant wages and unemployment. There are clear linkages between Chinese-resulting structural violence within Kyrgyzstan's economic and environmental sectors and structural violence as it manifests itself in Kyrgyzstan's society. China's structural power is not, however, limited to these types of structural violence within Kyrgyzstan society. Chinese structural power over Bishkek's structures of security is most visible in Beijing's push for the state to securitise potential sources of terrorism over its other. Ethnic Hui Chinese now dominate truck transport between China and Kyrgyzstan, a situation that has led to riots in Kyrgyzstan as locals accuse the Chinese trucks of ruining roads and Chinese truckers of stealing jobs.
