Does Beijing Approve of North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions?

"In dealing with the North Korean nuclear issue, the Bush Administration’s negotiators must now prepare for the endgame, first by acknowledging that China’s main, if not sole, interest is to prolong the six-party talks process indefinitely so that the world eventually will come to accept a nuclear North Korea in the same way it has accepted a nuclear India and nuclear Pakistan. China most likely calculates that North Korea, as a nuclear power, can complicate U.S. strategic planning and use its increased leverage to extort international food and energy aid with which to prop up Pyongy­ang’s tyrannical regime." Source: The Heritage Foundation [via DocuTicker]

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