Begun in 1996, the "shanghai Five" is regarded as a foreign policy innovation by President Jiang... The forum "is China's attempt to break out of it's old foreign policy isolation," says Cheng Li, professor at Hamilton College in New York, and author of a new book on Chinese leadership. "The group will become quite important if the US puts NMD online. That would make an alliance between Russia and China quite likely."
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