Thursday, November 11, 2004

China's Dangerous Game - Wall Street Journal

Is China ready to play superpower?
China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing warned during a visit to Tehran last week that China might block referring Iran to the council. Negotiations with Iran, Mr. Li said, were best handled within the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which is led by a man, Mohammed El Baradei, who has all but accepted that Iran has a right to enrich uranium. ...

It has escaped no one that energy-poor China buys about 17% of its oil from Iran. Just to make that lure all the shinier, Iran signed a major oil and gas investment deal with China a week before Mr. Li visited. more

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