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Ten Foreign Policy Relationships in China’s New Era

Five defining dynamics are underpinning this new age. First, emerging big and medium powers, some fourteen or fifteen in number, are on the rise as a group either as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—the newcomer), or as the cluster of VISTA which embraces Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey and Argentina, as well as the wider team of the Next Eleven (N-11) which includes Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, South Korea and Vietnam. What an impressive array, the first ever seen in human history! Of particular signif…