In international affairs, national leaders are frequently called upon to give their opinions on other national leaders. President Donald Trump has never shied away from this; he’s not above calling another nation’s leader a “loser” or worse, if that’s his honest opinion; the notion of diplomacy that President Trump has has some decidedly rough edges.
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Of course, President Trump has been the subject of comments from other national leaders as well. As is usually the case, some of those comments are good, some… not.
But one Asian nation’s leader has some pretty enthusiastic things to say about the American president.
Donald Trump’s business-centric approach in dealing with foreign countries has prompted one Central Asian leader to say the U.S. president has been “sent by heaven.”
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has embraced Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy, using it to deepen economic ties with the United States while seeking to reduce his country’s reliance on Russia and China.
Kazakhstan, not all that long ago, was a “republic” in the Soviet Union, and the relationship between this largely Muslim province and officially atheist Moscow was not without difficulties, and people in that part of the world have long memories. But it doesn’t appear as though President Tokayev is just playing one side against the other.
According to a New York Times report on Sunday, Kazakhstan has aggressively courted Washington during Trump’s second administration, resulting in a wave of business agreements, high-level meetings, and billions of dollars in planned U.S. investment.
Tokayev praised Trump during a November 2025 visit to Washington, calling him “a great leader” and a statesman “sent by heaven.”
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That’s high praise indeed. And before we go off claiming, “Well, it’s just Kazakhstan,” we might note that Kazakhstan is one of the most mineral-rich regions on the planet, being not only the world’s largest producer of uranium, but also having about 30 percent of the globe’s chromite reserves, along with being a major producer of bauxite (aluminum ore) copper, iron ore, coal, oil and natural gas – not to mention gold. Just as Alaska is America’s treasure chest, Kazakhstan is Central Asia’s. They also have substantial reserves of titanium, silver, tungsten, and rare earth minerals.
President Trump has made strategic minerals a priority, not only in developing domestic sources but in shifting our imports to nations more friendly than, say, China. At the moment, Kazakhstan would appear to be pretty friendly.
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And trade between the two nations is increasing.
During Tokayev’s visit to Washington last year, Kazakh companies signed 29 agreements with U.S. firms worth more than $17 billion, including a tungsten mining project, an agreement with Nvidia and Firebird to build an artificial intelligence data hub, a satellite internet deal involving Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and a $4.2 billion purchase of rail equipment from Wabtec.
The momentum has continued.
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We might note as well that Kazakhstan has signed on to President Trump’s greatest diplomatic achievements: The Abraham Accords.
Granted, the old saying applies: Nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests. But it would seem like a really good idea to maintain a friendly relationship with a nation with as much mineral wealth as Kazakhstan, and it would also seem a good idea to try to buy as much of that nation’s uranium as we can – to avoid having them sell it to someone else, like a certain Persian nation that is only a short journey by ship down the Caspian Sea.
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