不管在布什时代与美国在关塔那摩维吾尔族囚犯方面发生的争执，中国如今已经占据了一个更有利的地位去告诉自己在伊斯兰堡的“全天候”盟友：阿富汗的稳定不但是美国的事，也是中国的一个重要目标。
Regardless of the Bush-era disputes with the US over the Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, China is in a better position to tell its “all-weather” friends in Islamabad that stabilizing Afghanistan is not only an American objective, but a significant Chinese goal as well.