"I was thinking the same thing. The U.S. is far more powerful than China, (at least for now), but China showed a will to face down NK that the U.S. did not have."
? I must have missed something in this article ... just what did China do ?
In the eyes of japan and South Korea (and perhaps other asian countries) they did what the US could not do. Save them
Again I say "in their eyes"
Nothing.
Its what did the RATS do negotiating with the enemy behind the governments back. What have they sold to the enemy now?
I smell a democrat, and the smell is extremely bad.
According to the article, China pressured NK into apologizing for their nuclear detonation and prompted Kim jong il to promise he'll not detonate another bomb and will get back into a dialogue with the U.S. and the U.N. regarding the scrapping of their nuclear ambitions. I'd say that put the U.S.'s efforts to shame, probably because NK feared a strong economic and/or military response from China, while calling President Bush's bluff.