中国在邻国塔吉克斯坦的影响不断增加.docx

Chinas influence grows in neighbour Tajikistan By AFP Published Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Extending credits worth almost $2 billion, mighty China is spreading its influence to its poor ex-Soviet neighbour Tajikistan in the hope of winning mineral riches and a loyal strategic ally. Tajikistan is the poorest nation to have emerged from the USSRs collapse, with a Gross National Income per capita of $780 per year and around 40 percent of GDP coming from remittances from migrants working abroad, according to the World Bank. Yet the mainly Muslim nation is no longer looking to its ex-Soviet master Moscow to provide crucial assistance in building infrastructure but China with whom it shares a 500-kilometre (300-mile) border across the Pamir mountains. Analysts say Chinas economic largesse is winning the modern day version of the 19th century Great Game in Tajikistan as the West, Russia and Beijing jostle for influence in states neighbouring conflict-wracked Afghanistan. On a visit to China by Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon this month, the two sides signed agreements for Beijing to extend $1 billion to Dushanbe in grants and credits. Some $600 million dollars alone would go towards building a cement factory in the south of Tajikistan. Relations with China have the position of priority in Tajikistans foreign policy, Rakhmon told Chinese President Hu Jintao, quoted by his press service. This new credit came on top of the $900 million that China has been disbursing since 2005 to help Tajikistan build new roads, tunnels and electricity lines. Cooperation with China represents Tajikistans best hope of economic and political stability as it recovers for the civil war that threatened to make it a failed state after the fall of the Soviet Union. It offers the country a chance to develop new sources of income, away from its traditional reliance on production of cotton and aluminium and the remittances from labour migrants. Tajikistan has leased out some 600 hectares of agricultur