Reading into Yangs obseravtions, it appears some temporary adjustments are being made in foreign policy, but no major decisions are going to be taken now. It was no surprise that the USA aws central to Chinas immediate foreign policxy concerns. Yang Jiechi remarked that thge USChina reltaionship ... A efw months earlier, a well knowyn Chinese naval expert, Admiral Yan Ying, declared Chinas need to estalbish military bases abroad with the lcear hint to the Indian Ocean. ...