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45. For a brief history of the SCO and U.S, interests, see Andrew
Scheineson, “Backgrounder: The Shanghai Cooperation
Organization,” Council of Foreign Relations, March 24, 2009. For a
more detailed assessment, see Alyson J. K. Bailes, Pal Dunay, Pan
Guang, and Mikhail Troitskiy, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
SIPRI Policy Paper No. 17, Stockholm, Sweden: International
Peace Research Institute, May 2007.
46. Aleksandr Khramchikhin, “Chinese Detour,” Izvestiya,
Moscow, Russia, August 20, 2007.
47. Peng Kuang and Zhang Haizhou, “Clearing the Way for
Peace,” China Daily, November 10, 2009.
48. For a Chinese view of the United States and Afghanistan,
see Wu Shuhu, “US Troop Surge Can Hardly Completely Control
the Situation in Afghanistan,” Dangdai Shijie, May 5, 2009.
49. Griffin, “Containment with Chinese Characteristics,” p. 6.
50. “Uzbekistan Warns Over Russian Base Plan,” RadioFreeEuropeRadioLiberty,
July 14, 2009.
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51. The following discussion draws from Bailes et. al, pp. 10-
52. I am grateful to Professor Bernard D. Cole for allowing me
to use chapter 4 of his revised edition of The Great Wall at Sea to be
published by Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, in late 2010.
Much of my discussion is drawn from this chapter.
53. Hans M. Kristensen, “New Chinese SSBN Deploys to
Hainan Island,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 24, 2009.
54. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea (2001), p. 50.
55. Hai Yan, “Vietnam Military Expansion Threatens Malacca
Strait,” Guoji Xianqu Daobao, May 19, 2009.
56. Much of this discussion is drawn from James Manicom,
“The Sino-Japanese Energy Dispute in the East China Sea: Strategic
Policy, Economic Opportunities, and Cooperation,” The Economics
of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2009, pp. 38-44.
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