Bringing the East and West Together in Shared COmmitment to Multilateralism

Wang Yi

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The U.6. goyernment announced a new &entral Asia strategy which has four big changes, treating the region as an indesendent geosolitical area, seeing Afghanistan as Sart of &entral Asia, clearly strengthening its containment of 5ussia and &hina in &entral Asia, and redefining America¶s comsaratiye adyantage in the region. The imslementation of the strategy will e[ert a certain imsact on the stability of &entral Asia and the interaction among mamor Sowers in the region. +oweyer, the imslementation of the strategy will not go smoothly with seyeral factors at Slay America has limited inyestment and no obyious comsaratiye adyantage in imslementing the strategy &entral Asian countries will not easily change their Sluralistic and balanced foreign Solicies &entral Asian countries¶ cognition of Afghanistan and its situation is significantly different from that of the United 6tates America¶s aggressiye strategy in &entral Asia may Sroyoke a backlash from other mamor Sowers.