Dialogue with Joseph Nye

• Source: Global Times
• [15:58 November 12 2009]
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Global Times: Is it possible that President Barack Obama makes a statement on the Taiwan issue that is different from his predecessors for the exchange of China's bigger support on North Korea?

Nye: I would doubt that. For one thing I don't think there is a tradeoff between Taiwan and North Korea. I think China has to deal with North Korea because it's Chinese interests. After all, China doesn't want to see a nuclear Korean Peninsula. It's not for the US to buy China's support for that. It's for China to realize that a nuclear Korean Peninsula is not in China's interests.