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Abstract
Against the backdrop of the Belt and Road Initiative promoting transnational educational cooperation, the internationalization of higher education has become a key direction for educational development in both China and Uzbekistan. This comparative analysis looks at the internationalisation policies for higher education in each country. The research investigates policy goals, avenues for policy and policy support. The findings demonstrate that the higher education internationalization policy orientation, with its strong combination between "inviting in" and "going global," mainly serves to national strategies and regional development needs in China. It has also outlined an action system by encouraging cooperative education, establishing international student exchange mechanisms, and generating policy support and capital investment to promote the support system. However, Uzbekistan's policy is aimed at the integration of educational resources, their compliance with global standards in order to ensure the competitiveness of higher education and attract as many foreign students as possible. Curriculum standardization and the construction of transnational education cooperation platform becomes the comprehensive requirement for its implementation, and its support mechanisms featured by the supervisions of educational quality. However, the two countries differ in the priority and the strength of implementation for their core policy priorities, even as similarities emerge in the development of transnational educational co-operation mechanisms and promotion of cultural exchange in general. This study presents concrete conclusions that may benefit the depth of higher education cooperation and further development of China and Uzbekistan internationalization policies.