Once China’s enormous economic and security interests in Afghanistan are left without America’s military shield, the Chinese are bound to play an even larger role there, one that Afghans hope will reach “strategic levels.” China would prefer to accomplish this the Chinese way – that is, essentially through a display of soft power – or, as the Chinese government put it on the occasion of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s official visit to Beijing in early June, through “non-traditional security areas.”
一旦中国在阿富汗巨大的经济和安全利益没有了美国军力的约束，中国肯定会在阿富汗扮演更重要的角色，一种阿富汗人希望达到“战略水平”的角色。中国将用中国的方式完成这一步——即通过展示软实力，也可能通过“非传统安全区”来达到这一目的——这也是中国政府在阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊6月初正式访问北京时的说法。