Korea Times quotes Stephan Haggard
"Navy ship sinking puts Beijing on the spot"
05/04/2010
Sunny Lee,
The Korea Times
BEIJING ? As South Korea is likely to bring the matter of the deadly sinking of the warship Cheonan to the United Nations Security Council amid growing suspicions of North Korean involvement, China is also becoming the focus of attention as a veto-wielding permanent council member.
"Obviously, the incident puts South Korea on the spot. But it also puts China on the spot too because China has been endlessly indulging North Korea," Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea at Leeds University told The Korea Times.
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Professor Haggard's research interests center on international relations and political economy, with a focus on East Asia and Latin America.
