"...at least one very important new item in the 250,000 private comments, mostly by American diplomats, that WikiLeaks has made public. This was the report by the U.S. ambassador to South Korea that a senior Chinese official confided to her that China regards North Korea as a hopeless case and is prepared to see it absorbed into South Korea to avoid a potential nuclear war.
"Assuming the report was correct, even if only as a feeler Beijing can dismiss whenever it wants, this represents an intriguing example of a phenomenon known as the 'G2' — the group of two, just the United States and China. ...
"The WikiLeaks affair complicates matters a bit. All that really matters is the two sides of the G2 are, apparently, able in the back rooms to discuss political realities....
"And the G2 does have one great advantage. It’s a lot better than an American-run unipolar world."
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