Just how weakened America is in the region matters. As the US strategist Daniel Twining has observed: “Over the coming four years, US leadership…will be essential” for “the consolidation of a wide-ranging strategic partnership with India,” as well as for efforts “to prevent Pakistan’s many pathologies…from spilling over in ways that undermine fundamental US (and Indian) interests.”
美国在该地区会衰弱到什么程度事关重大。正如美国战略家推宁（Daniel Twining）所观察到的：“在未来四年中，美国的领导……”对“巩固与印度的广泛战略合作伙伴关系”以及对“防止巴基斯坦诸多弊端……以威胁美国（和印度）根本利益的方式溢出”的举措“至关重要”。