Rumsfled?
Only on Xinhua, the Chinese news site. It looks like, contrary to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the United States’ military presence in Central Asia (at least Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) will continue. This will likely have the effect of maintaing the size of the embassies in both countries, meaning that they will continue to have staff specifically for issues of democracy. Will the new Great Game continue? Much depends on how the United States deals with the unresolved issue of Uzbekistan’s human rights record - which faces major tests in the form of the trial of Internews employees and the future of the Uzbek refugees from Andijan currently in Kyrgyzstan.
