The US New Silk Road Initiative was originally conceived by Frederick Starr, a John Hopkins University scholar, in 2005.

美國(guó)“新絲綢之路計(jì)劃”起源于霍普金斯大學(xué)斯塔爾于 2005年提出的“新絲綢之路”構(gòu)想。

The initiative was formally announced by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July 2011 at the Second US-India Strategic Dialogue in India. It aims to build a new geopolitical block consisting of the pro-US market economies with secular political systems. With a special focus on Afghanistan, it seeks to expand cooperation among Central and South Asian countries in areas such as energy and transport as well as on political and security issues to boost local economic and social development and serve US strategic interests in the region.

2011年7月，時(shí)任美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)卿希拉里在印度參加第二次美印戰(zhàn)略對(duì)話期間正式提出了“新絲綢之路計(jì)劃”：以阿富汗為中心，通過中亞、南亞在政治、安全、能源、交通等領(lǐng)域的合作，建立一個(gè)由親美的、實(shí)行市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)和世俗政治體制的國(guó)家組成的新地緣政治版塊，推動(dòng)包括阿富汗在內(nèi)的中亞地區(qū)國(guó)家的經(jīng)濟(jì)社會(huì)發(fā)展，服務(wù)于美國(guó)在該地區(qū)的戰(zhàn)略利益。

In October of the same year, the US Department of State instructed US embassies in the countries concerned to rebrand its Central and South Asia policies under the New Silk Road framework, and to notify international partners accordingly. Such a move marked the formal inclusion of the New Silk Road Initiative in US official policies.

同年10月，美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)院向美國(guó)駐有關(guān)國(guó)家大使館發(fā)出電報(bào)，要求將美國(guó)的中亞、南亞政策統(tǒng)一命名為“新絲綢之路”戰(zhàn)略，并將其向國(guó)際伙伴通報(bào)。這標(biāo)志著“新絲綢之路計(jì)劃”正式成為美國(guó)的官方政策。

Some of the New Silk Road Initiative projects have now been completed, including the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Railway and Tajikistan’s Sangtuda Hydropower Station, which is already supplying power to Afghanistan. Judging by official releases and the progress of the initiative, the US has shown no intention of giving it up despite challenges in terms of backward support infrastructure, insufficient funds, lack of mutual trust, and terrorist and extremist threats in the region.

目前，“新絲綢之路計(jì)劃”的部分項(xiàng)目已經(jīng)完工，如烏茲別克斯坦—阿富汗鐵路已經(jīng)竣工，塔吉克斯坦桑土達(dá)水電站開始向阿富汗送電。從美國(guó)的官方表態(tài)及實(shí)際進(jìn)展來看，該計(jì)劃雖然面臨許多困難和風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，如地區(qū)內(nèi)國(guó)家基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施落后、資金不足、相互缺乏信任及恐怖主義和極端主義肆虐等，但美國(guó)從未明確放棄該計(jì)劃。