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| China likely to be cautious on sunken ship findings |
| 2010-05-22 |
| HONG KONG, May 22 (Yonhap) -- China will likely be cautious on a multinational probe that found North Korea responsible for sinking a South Korean warship in March, scholars said Saturday. "China will take a very cautious approach to comment on the issue by calling on various sides to remain calm. It probably cannot directly endorse South Korea's report," Simon Shen, an associate professor of international relations at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, told Yonhap News. "However, China can't and will not publicly support North Korea's stance, as well as it doesn't want to be seen as being responsible of the incident." Shen expected that China will assume the role of arbitrator to settle the dispute. "China would try to play a mediator role between North Korea and South Korea, possibly asking the North Koreans to offer their own version," Shen said. "China does not want to see fundamental changes in the peninsula, and all it wants is to reestablish some kind of a multilateral communication channel on this particular case." Zhang Quanyi, an associate professor of political science at Zhejiang Wanli University in the southeastern Chinese city of Ningbo, agreed that China, North Korea's sole benefactor, will not wholeheartedly stand by the communist regime. "China actually has already showed its dissatisfaction, if not 'punishment,' over North Korea's attitude and the regime's possible involvement over this incident, when Kim Jong-il was visiting China," Zhang argued. "Unlike his previous visits to China, Kim went back empty-handed." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 True, considering it's 'your' President in the WH. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-05-22 22:21 |
| #3 We? Sure. Perhaps you mean they'all? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-05-22 05:59 |
| #2 ION WMF > NORTH KOREA AND RUSSIA TO FIGHT [agz the USA, Japan] IN THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN [Northeast]EAST ASIA SOON. CHINA UPSET AND FORCED TO FIGHT? and * SAME > US PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IN 1943 PROPOSED TO RETURN MANCHURIA, TAIWAN, OKINAWA/RYUKYUS, AND KANTO PENINSULA BACK TO CHINA, US ASSISTANCE IN GETTING THE BRITISH OUT OF SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, AND MALAYA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-22 01:35 |
| #1 China needs to be told in no uncertain terms if its pet keeps shitting on the grass, we will start throwing the shit over the fence back to the owner. Curb your dog, China. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-05-22 01:07 |