CIA National Intelligence Estimates on the Cross-Strait and Sino-Russian Relations
... 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, as well as tensions in the Russian Far-East,... ... regarding de facto and partially recognized 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 in 2011, it is clear that Chinese diplomacy will ...
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