Pakistan, accordingly, froze cooperation with the US, because its leaders no longer saw much to gain in fighting the Taliban. The risk is that when the American withdrawal from Afghanistan begins – a process that has just been brought forward to next year, from 2014 – the US will again seek to impose sanctions on Pakistan, an unreliable nuclear state that will react by strengthening ties with China and deploying Islamist terrorism.
相应地，巴基斯坦冻结了与美国的合作，因为其领导人看不到与塔利班打仗的好处。问题在于，当美国开始从阿富汗撤军时——该进程将在明年提出，从2014年开始实施——它将重新开始对巴基斯坦采取制裁，因为巴基斯坦是一个不可靠的有核国家，可能倒向中国并开展伊斯兰恐怖主义作为回应。