Until a few days ago, most western diplomats in Beijing had never heard of a regional security conference established by Kazakhstan in the 1990s and known by the snappy acronym Cica.
But as President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and a dozen other heads of state or government arrived in Shanghai on Monday, many of these diplomats were scrambling to learn more about the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building measures in Asia.
The ceremony surrounding this summit provides the latest example of China’s efforts to revive moribund multilateral bodies or to establish new ones that exclude the US.
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