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" ... The Central Asian states themselves, as I have noted earlier, are doing what they can in order to avoid becoming overly dependent upon either of their giant neighbors. Russia has been frustrated recently by a reticence on the part of regional governnments, despite the threat from rising instability in Afghanistan, to allow Russia to increase its already large security role in the region, and there is resistance also to the idea that they will become mere economic appendages of western China and thus vassals of Beijing. Here lies the opening needed by the West to keep a foothold and attempt to maintain some type of influence in this strategically critical region. ... "