但它们的商业和政治利益有诸多重叠之处，只要两国政府抓住机会，就大有形成妥协的希望。 中国在鼓励巴基斯坦与印度和美国就阿富汗的未来达成一致的问题上起到了推动作用，这是一个良好的开端，且压制恐怖分子使其无法经巴基斯坦或阿富汗向新疆自治区渗透对中国来说也不无裨益。
But their overlapping layers of commercial and political interests do offer hope for agreement – if the two governments seize the opportunity.  Chinese assistance in encouraging Pakistan to reach agreement with India and the US on Afghanistan’s future is a good place to start, and will also benefit Chinese security by crimping the ability of terrorists to infiltrate China’s Xinxiang province from either Pakistan or Afghanistan