From right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev attend a concert in honor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Central Asian states meeting in Beijing this week say they want a role in stabilizing Afghanistan after most U.S. combat troops leave at the end of 2014, with China’s economic juggernaut leading the charge. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service)
