CIA National Intelligence Estimates on the Cross-Strait and Sino-Russian Relations

... will do for Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008. The possibility of Russia recognizing Taiwan to justify its own recognition of Abkhazia and South-Ossetia is therefore a hypothesis... ... suggested by the CIA in its report. Finally, the analysis considers that China's refusal to allow Russia to exert influence in Xinjiang and China's western territories... ... states. In 2000, it was difficult to know whether Beijing would be ready to recognize Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia or even Nagorno-Karabakh. On decade later...