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...American professional sports leagues after the September 11 attacks.But there are also times when sports may be an appropriate vehicle for condemning mass murder. If “Where Will We Be” can be successful, it may finally put enough pressure on China and empower the Security Council to take decisive action in Darfur.It’s a long journey, but Cheek is on the right path.“I’m proud that so many people took up the call to help and to donate money and to be aware of my cause...
...Bolton's almost cheerful description of what he called a "remarkable" Security Council session reflected a surprising reality - the North Korean nuclear test may actually be a boon to the U.S.' long-frustrated efforts to achieve consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has done her best to leave behind the Bush Administration's go-it-alone cowboy diplomacy of the first term and build real international coalitions, but until the test she had no success convincing China and South Korea, the North's primary trading partners, to leverage their economic relationships into serious pressure...
...South Korean softness towards the North. The next election in about a year will probably lead to a more conservative South Korean government. They calculate that China is not going to let them collapse, " notes Michael J. Green, who handled Asian affairs for the Bush White House National Security Council (NSC) until December 2005 and is now senior advisor at the Center for International and Strategic Studies...
...enough?" asks Green. "The Chinese don?t want to go so far they create a whole another nightmare for themselves with North Korea falling apart." Pike thinks China won't take the risk. "That's why we're not going to get anything beyond words out of the Security Council," he says...
...Gary Samore, a Clinton Administration NSC proliferation expert who is now director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, contends that subjecting the North Koreans to financial stress and a naval blockade would only make matters worse. The North could retaliate, he says, by "stirring up trouble in the Sea of Japan or sending patrols into the DMZ... If things really got out of hand, you'd have increased military alerts and clashes on the Korean peninsula that would cause jitters in Seoul. And there's always a danger that these things will get pretty hairy." To China, Japan...