Abstract. The article analyzes the strategies of Russia, China, the United States, and the European Union in Central Asia after 2022. It is shown that the European Union has shifted its focus to the geoeconomic agenda and the development of transport corridors, the United States to preventing a Russian-Chinese monopoly with limited resource and military elements, Russia to a model of infrastructure interdependence, and China to a comprehensive infrastructure and financial strategy with a humanitarian superstructure. The intersection of interests of world powers in the areas of security, energy, and logistics does not form cooperation, but rather managed competition. The Central Asian republics respond with a hedging strategy, which allows them to strengthen their subjectivity and use external competition as a resource for internal development.