China avoids key nuclear issues

The daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes that nuclear armament in Iran and North Korea is a further topic Chinese leader Hu Jintao avoided during US President Barack Obama's visit to China: "Obama said that Tehran must reckon with the consequences if its leadership fails to convincingly show the world very soon that its nuclear programme is peaceful. Hu meanwhile only repeated that China believes the question of Iran must be solved 'through dialogue and negotiation'. Similarly on the issue of North Korea, concerning which the US feels Beijing, which has close economic ties with North Korea, should step up the pressure on Pyongyang, Hu merely said that both sides agree that North Korea must return to the six-party talks coordinated by China."

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