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	<title>Daniel Michaeli: Asia Ruminations &#187; Nuclear Proliferation</title>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s Chinese Buddies</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2010/05/03/north-koreas-chinese-buddies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With &#8220;a battalion of security guards and female dining companions&#8221; aboard his train, North Korea&#8217;s leader arrived in China today en-route to Beijing. Kim Jong-il finds himself increasingly under pressure for the sinking of South Korea&#8217;s Cheonan in March, isolated by international sanctions, and still reeling from having angered much of North Korea&#8217;s elite with last year&#8217;s currency fiasco.
So Kim would probably be grateful for just about anything Beijing will give him. And reports suggest China has lots of goodies to offer, in exchange for access to minerals and ports ...]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Approach to Iran (Radio Interview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media: Voice of America.
Subjects: Chinese interests in the Middle East, the China-Iran economic relationship, Iran, Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, and differing Chinese and U.S. foreign policy priorities.
Length: 2:43.

This segment on China&#8217;s interests in Iran, including the energy trading relationship, includes interviews with Erica Downs of the Brookings Institution and myself.


Note: If you have trouble with the embedded MP3 file above, you can open or download the interview directly here. See the written report on Voice of America&#8217;s web site here.
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		<title>Russia and Iran Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2009/10/21/russia-and-iran-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just a few years&#8217; time, Iran&#8217;s tally of uranium enrichment centrifuges has grown 35 times from 164 to 6,000. Along the way, the intransigence of Iran&#8217;s president&#8211;which drew international condemnation, caused western companies to pull out of ventures in Iran, and led the International Atomic Energy Agency to send Iran&#8217;s nuclear program to the UN Security Council&#8211;has fueled an unprecedented amount of internal instability within the Islamic Republic.
Russia has appeared wary of sanctions, but Medvedev&#8217;s remarks at the G-20 summit suggest the distinct possibility of a Russian move towards ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why China Doesn&#8217;t Want a Nuclear North Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.asiaruminations.com/2008/01/09/why-china-doesnt-want-a-nuclear-north-korea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Michaeli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: 9 January 2008.
Publication: Far Eastern Economic Review.
Author: Daniel Michaeli.
North Korea’s nuclear program is a danger not only to the United States, but also to China. A proliferation crisis, particularly in the Middle East, would carry consequences compromising the delicately balanced domestic economic and social stability that China’s leaders strive to maintain. In order to preserve its own interests, China must prevent such a crisis from occurring.

 
The discovery of another nuclear weapons program in the Middle East would inflame tensions and could lead to a wide-scale war. North Korea was ...]]></description>
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