Today it is not ideology but the promise of privileged access to resources and infrastructure that shapes geostrategic maneuvering in Central Asia. In fact today, nothing tells us more about the future of geopolitics in Central Asia than tracing infrastructure plans on the ground. For landlocked countries of Central Asia , connectivity is strategy. As for China, its strategy isn’t to formally occupy these Asian countries but to ease passage across them. It wins the new Great Game by building the new Silk Roads. Today Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank is budgeted to spend about ten times as much in Asia as the Marshall plan spent in Europe. So this competition over connectivity is indeed reducing Central Asia's collective risk. It is the regional connectivity not hegemony that is contributing to its future stability. And therefore Central Asian map of the future will feature more connections and fewer divisions.