The expectation is already there that China is going to be the most important power center in East Asia.

It's our expectation that this veto power will be used infrequently, since we're all aware of the negative consequences that could arise from the use of such power in a community project.

Implicitly when they make that request there's an expectation that it will be paid back,

Both North and South Korea have a very clear win-win here. It's a distraction. It doesn't change the relationship.

I remember when this first came up a couple of years ago. It's so stupid, but it keeps getting worse.

Since 1978, for almost three decades, China has been growing at over nine percent a year. Yet since 1979 East Asia has been more stable and more peaceful than any other time since the opium wars of 1859.