BEIJING – Expect President Xi Jinping to use 2015 to mend fences with China’s neighbours after two tension-filled years that saw Beijing launching an air defence zone and deploying an oil rig to stake its maritime claims, analysts say.
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“This priority originates from the diplomatic debacles in the past few years and the belief that as long as China does not have a solid, secure and well-managed neighbourhood, such vulnerability will always undermine its security and emergence as a regional and global power,” said Washington-based analyst Yun Sun at Stimson Centre, a think-tank.
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