作者：理查德 D 费希尔 Jr

    一支来自中国人民解放军（PLA）成都军区的特种部队分遣队部署到巴基斯坦用于从2006年10月10-18日友谊2006反恐演习。

    虽然巴基斯坦和中国共担一个来自伊斯兰无政府暴力的认知威胁，而且尽管演习的反恐性质，小规模的友谊2006并非看来最初原意去实际上帮助实行反-恐政策。

    然而，演习的真正影响是政治上。友谊2006是随着中国主席胡锦涛2006年11月访问印度和巴基斯坦之后，在那里他试着平衡和发展与两个对手的关系。中国的主要战略合伙人仍然是巴基斯坦：北京仍然负责它的核能力的许多技术，和巴基斯坦陆军、空军和海军的重要武器。

    对于中国，减速或中和印度与华盛顿增长的同盟是更大的目标。不大可能发生的，当维持它和巴基斯坦的战略关系的时候它希望做这个，在伊斯兰世界有一个主导作用。两者都会提升中国用于中亚的宗旨，包括到能源来源的固定通路和建立陆上铁道、道路和管线走向去减少易受攻击的经过印度洋和东南亚海路的信赖。

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Foreign friends - China expands relations with India and Pakistan

By Richard D Fisher Jr

A contingent of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Special Forces troops from the Chengdu Military Region deployed to Pakistan for the Friendship 2006 counter-terrorism exercises from 10-18 December 2006.

While Pakistan and China share a perceived threat from Islamic non-state violence, and despite the counter-terrorism nature of the exercises, the small Friendship 2006 does not appear to be primarily designed to actually help prosecute counter-terrorist policies.

Rather, the real impact of the exercises is political. Friendship 2006 followed up on Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 2006 visit to India and Pakistan, where he tried to balance and expand relations with both rivals. China's main strategic partner remains Pakistan: Beijing remains responsible for much of the technology in its nuclear capabilities, as well as significant weapons in Pakistan's army, air force and navy.

For China, decelerating or neutralising India's growing alliance with Washington is the greater goal. Improbably, it hopes to do this while sustaining its strategic relationship with Pakistan, which has a leading role in the Islamic world. Both would advance China's objectives for Central Asia, which include securing access to energy sources and creating overland rail, road and pipeline routes to reduce reliance on vulnerable sea lanes through the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia.

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