JTO: China wants it both ways

[Clark Kent]

China wants it both ways
By - 01-05-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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China is a schizophrenic power, a developing country on select international issues but a rising superpower that sees itself in the same league as the United States in other matters, with its new muscular confidence on open display. At the recent Copenhagen climate-change summit meeting, China was the former: It loudly emphasized its membership in the developing world and quietly used poor countries, especially from Africa, to raise procedural obstacles in the negotiations.
Make no mistake: China, the world's largest net polluter whose carbon emissions are growing at the fastest rate, was the principal target at Copenhagen. But China cleverly deflected pressure by hiding behind small, poor countries and forging a negotiating alliance with India and two other major developing countries, Brazil and South Africa, who together are known as the BASIC bloc.

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[Omar B]

I read an interesting article in one of the business mags a few months ago, Fast Company or Inc. Magazine. They were talking about how China's work in Africa helped contribute to the situation in Darfur.