THE QUESTION

Why did North Korea return to 6-party talks this week? Does this signal China's emergence as the regional superpower? Should the world welcome a more active and ambitious China on matters like this?
Posted by Amar C. Bakshi on November 2, 2006 3:14 PM

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Huang runs CIMG, a media company in China. She is the publisher of Time Out in China and iLook, a Chinese luxury lifestyle magazine. In addition, she has wrote a best seller book titled "My abnormal Life" and her own blog is one of the most popular in china.

North Korea Scares China

China - Pictures of Pyongyang today are a mirror image of what Beijing in the 60s during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Two generations of Chinese still get the creepy crawlers when they remember life back then.

Huang Hung Beijing, China | 13 COMMENTS
Nov 6, 2006 at 8:20 AM
Kyoko Altman has worked as a correspondent and anchor for CNN and CNBC, and as a news-magazine reporter for Japan's top-ranked news program 'News Station' on TV Asahi. She has covered more than twenty countries.

A Selective Superpower

Hong Kong - Yes, China's efforts in North Korea highlight its new prominence on the global stage. But whether that bodes well or ill for the rest of the world remains to be seen.

Kyoko Altman Hong Kong, China | 4 COMMENTS
Nov 4, 2006 at 3:38 AM
Shim Jae Hoon is a Seoul-based journalist and commentator writing for a variety of international publications including YaleGlobal Online, The Straits Times of Singapore, The Taipei Times and Korea Herald. He was a correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review in Seoul, Taipei and Jakarta.

China: Powerful But Irresponsible

Seoul, South Korea - North Korea is returning to the 6-party talks for the simple reason that it is running out of any more cards with which to intimidate the United States.

Shim Jae Hoon South Korea | 704 COMMENTS
Nov 3, 2006 at 2:36 AM
Mikio Ikuma is the Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun in Japan.

Don't Be Deceived by Talks

Tokyo, Japan - There is a strange sigh of relief in Beijing when North Korea said it would return to the 6-Party talks. Some even mentioned the partial lifting of sanctions against North Korea. I say no way.

Mikio Ikuma Japan | 953 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 8:20 PM
Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within.

China's Nuclear Pawns

New Delhi, India - North Korea's nuclear capacities could not have survived one day without Chinese support. Now, China has gained strategically from the North Korean test, and steps in.

M.J. Akbar India | 143 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 3:12 PM
Leon Krauze is a Mexican blogger and a founder of letraslibres.com.

Multilateral Sanctions Work

Mexico City, Mexico - Kim Jong Il's crass miscalculation has led to an almost unprecedented occurrence: true international consensus.

Leon Krauze Mexico | 18 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 1:41 PM
Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish.

Beijing's Toll Road to Pyongyang

Tehran, Iran - China, in its own clever way, will disarm and neutralize North Korea.

Ali Ettefagh Tehran, Iran | 9 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 8:41 AM
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1955. Presently he is a visiting professor at Princeton University in the United States. Mr. Kuttab is the former director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah, Palestine and the founder of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. His personal web page is www.daoudkuttab.com

N. Korea Wanted Nukes to Negotiate

Amman, Jordan - North Korea clearly wasn't interested in its nuclear program per se. They wanted a better hand for bargaining with the U.S., Japan and South Korea.

Daoud Kuttab Princeton, NJ | 0 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 3:10 AM
Former Washington-based columnist for The Hong Kong Standard, The New York Sun, and Insight on the News, an online weekly published by The Washington Times. Covered economic and political relations between the United States and East Asia, with an emphasis on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association. Currently a business executive at a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong.

China Insincerely Engages N. Korea

Hong Kong - What's the point of resuming futile talks? China is not a world partner yet. It's still with the enemy.

Kin-ming Liu Hong Kong | 23 COMMENTS
Nov 2, 2006 at 2:29 AM

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