| Summary: | Beijing has employed a new security concept based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence and has used high-level diplomacy and other extensive political, economic, and military exchanges to build contacts and influence throughout its periphery. Impressive improvements in China's relations with Souoth Korea and Southeast Asia and more mixed but still important results in relations with Russia, India, and countries along China's western flank suggest the overall approach will be continued. chinese activism seeks to counter recent perceived U.S. containment around China's periphery, but Beijing motives seem multifaceted and long term.
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