China tells Iran to heed international pressure

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday urged Iran to heed rising international worry about its nuclear ambitions, saying Beijing would seek to work with Europe and the United Nations to defuse the crisis but holding its tongue on any new sanctions.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that his country's nuclear program was irreversible, showing continued defiance in the face of possible new U.N. sanctions.

He claimed that Iran now had 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium in its Natanz nuclear plant. Enriched uranium can fuel power plants but also, if refined further, act as material for bombs.

Iran says its intentions are peaceful, but Western powers say the Islamic state wants the ability to make nuclear weapons and they have warned Tehran to obey a U.N. call to halt enrichment.

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[Kittycat]

1. Maybe China can consider the same, before shipping another carton of poison to us.

Or we could just get a clue and stay out of others business, and work on our own problems. Then maybe we wouldn't be such a big target.

[Megahurtz]

2. Does Anyone Think

China actually cares?:shrug: Somehow I don't.

[dantyrant]

3. Of course they do.

They have energy and strategic interests in Iran not having the crap bombed out of it.

And it doesn't help that Ahmadinejad is screaming about having three thousand centrifuges with all of this WWIII talk floating around. That's not helpful for anyone.

[soothsayer]

4. China gets their oil from Iran. Last xmas we sent our top treasury officials to China

to threaten them that if they dumped the dollar, we would bomb Iran so China would have no oil for a month or two. they said 'that's crazy, only a madman would do that' and the guy (bernanke?) said "have you met my boss?"

[dantyrant]

5. I heard that Paulson

threatened China that OPEC might cut off their oil if they dump the dollar when he went to Beijing in December.

[soothsayer]

8. Yes! That's who it was. Thanks! I still heard the threat was to bomb Iran,

thereby cutting off the oil, but yours could also be true---tho OPEC wants China's $$$ no doubt, so why would they cooperate?

[dantyrant]

9. China can't protect the OPEC nations like the US can...

In a strange twist of fate, Arabs and OPEC may come to the rescue of the U.S.!

Senior officials in OPEC made clear that they too would be severely harmed if the U.S. Dollar collapsed, and hinted they "would not be inclined to sell oil to any particular nation that intentionally caused such a collapse."

This was a thinly veiled threat to China, which depends heavily on OPEC oil for its rapidly developing energy needs.

The OPEC officials even went so far as to say "Since China lacks the ability to project their military power, OPEC nations need not worry about any Chinese military response to an oil cut-off."

Such brutally candid remarks will not sit well with China; and signal ominous things for the U.S.

[ohio2007]

10. China cares about the Olympics and they want everybody to show up

thats all they are starting to "care" about ;)

[David__77]

6. China is being hypocritical.

If China had heeded such advice in the 1960s, it would be without a nuclear deterrent and much more at the mercies of the West.

[dantyrant]

7. There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around when it comes to nuclear issues.

We gave the Shah nuclear materials under Atoms for Peace.

That's all ancient history.