China Pulls Out of Iran Strategy Session

China Pulls Out of Iran Strategy Session
Published: 10/15/07, 6:05 PM EDT
By ANNE GEARAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - China is protesting U.S. honors for the Dalai Lama this week by pulling out of a planned international strategy session on Iran sought by the United States, a State Department official said Monday.

China objected to participating in the meeting on the same day that the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader is to receive Congress' civilian honor at a ceremony attended by President Bush, the official said.

China is one of six nations that have offered Iran a deal to shutter disputed nuclear activities, and Wednesday's meeting in Berlin was part of the U.S.-led drive to punish Iran for spurning the offer.

China is considered the main holdup to U.S. plans to impose new United Nations sanctions on Iran this fall. China and Russia, which have economic ties to Iran, have gone along so far with an international effort to coerce Iran away from an alleged weapons program but negotiations on the next round of sanctions is expected to be difficult.

The six-nation diplomatic meeting is still expected to take place, perhaps a week later, said the U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe another country's motives.

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we do nuclear deals with India..Pakistan hates us, we forget about the promise we made to Taiwan about its independence...and Taiwan hates us..France used to hate us...Germany used to hate us and now Britan is beginning to hate us...WHAT ARE WE TO DO???

IMPEACH, INDICT AND IMPRISON? would that help?

Which is ironic; we're doing far more for them...