Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed that China will remain steadfast in comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-standard opening-up, while also emphasizing that Chinese modernization is essentially different from Western modernization, which has features such as polarization and plunder, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Thursday.
The move will provide a clearer chain of command with other benefits such as greater efficiencies, but some ask whether high degree of autonomy will be affected.
China's main interest is to prolong the six-party talks so that theworld will accept a nuclear North Korea just as it has accepted anuclear India and Pakistan. The U.N. must adopt punitive measuresagainst North Korea, such as economic sanctions, and the UnitedStates should be prepared to fall back on the ProliferationSecurity Initiative framework should China block Security Councilaction.