Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xinsen did not attend the briefing but sent charge d'affaires Xing Haiming instead. That decision was not made by Zhang himself but came from Beijing.
Japan, Russia, and the United States all sent their ambassadors, it was an obvious slight.
China won't be leading the charge against NK.
40 posted on 05/18/2010 9:52:47 PM PDT by gandalftb
(OK State: Go Cowboys)
Well, they made sure that we get where they stand. No ambiguity. Even better.
44 posted on 05/18/2010 10:11:53 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)