The competition of goals between the US and Russia is increasingly intense under dual impacts of Afghanistan's political change and the evolvement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.This paper is dedicated to a study of the competition regarding four aspects,i.e.,security,production,finance,and knowledge between the US and Russia,the most influential external parties,from the perspective of structural power.As a whole,Russia is in a favorable condition in some domains owing to its unignorable influence.However,new changes have emerged in Russia-US competition in Central Asia as the US keeps increasing its strategic inputs while Russia's comprehensive strength has been weakened more or less,as the Russia-Ukraine conflict has evolved into a war of attrition.
the USRussiaCentral Asiacompetition between major powersstructural power