Russia, China Play Collective Cards

October 12 2007

Just before this summer's summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
all the permanent members of the organization took part in their largest joint
military exercises, held in both Russia and China. The exercises, shown above
in the Ural mountain region of Russia, were dubbed Peace Mission 2007.

While U.S. leadership on the international level was welcomed by many Central Asian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that did not necessarily translate into a...

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