There
are Chinese politicians who seem to revel in their country’s superpower
status when they hold the stage at international events. President Hu
Jintao certainly isn’t one of them. At this week’s Seoul Nuclear
Security Summit, he displayed the diplomatic minimalism that has become
his own kind of anti-trademark, advocating a “sensible and scientific
approach to nuclear security” with a calmness that belied the nuclear
crises bubbling in Asia and the Middle East.
A more flamboyant Chinese leader might have said this: that when it
comes to nuclear security in 2012, China is the only power that matters.
On the question of nuclear proliferation, there are essentially three
countries the world is acutely concerned about: North Korea, Iran, and,
to a lesser extent, Pakistan. And in all three cases, Beijing has more
leverage than any other foreign government.
As Pyongyang mixes its messages – promising to readmit IAEA nuclear
inspectors while simultaneously ...
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