Although Obama is likely to give priority in his diplomacy to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he cannot take the Asia-Pacific region’s stability for granted. The sources of uncertainty are many: tension between South and North Korea; anxiety over nuclear proliferation posed by cooperation between North Korea and Iran; managing the rise of China and India; and continued Islamist extremism on the Indian sub-continent, particularly Pakistan, as well as in Southeast Asia, where Al-Qaeda has established a second front through Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah .
虽然奥巴马在外交方面可能把解决伊拉克战争和阿富汗战争放在首要位置，但他不能对亚太地区的局势稳定高枕无忧。不确定性的来源有很多：紧张的南北韩关系，伊朗和朝鲜的合作而引起的对核扩散的忧虑，怎样应对中国和印度的崛起，印度次大陆上继续存在的伊斯兰极端主义，特别是巴基斯坦以及基地组织已经通过印尼的伊斯兰祈祷团建立了第二战线的东南亚地区。