Details are starting to trickle out of how close the French/Chinese fault line was to sinking the London summit. The Guardian is reporting that, remarkably, Tibet was the key issue linkage bringing the Chinese to the table on tax havens.
Read the article, its worth all the details, but I'll sum it up by saying it ultimately took a late night meeting between Sarkozy and Hu at the French president's hotel, and a last minute intervention by Obama, to smooth over the differences.
All sides are backing the account of Obama's last minute intervention; it seems the young US president is making good on his promise of a new era of US leadership.
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Mr Obama is doing fine at his first ever summit as president, or so it seems so far. I watched his press conference yesterday and was quite surprised by the easiness with which he was handling all those difficult question. No script, no reading. And he uses very little of unnecessary words - when he doesn't know what to say, he simply waits until he finds the appropriate words. Lets see what the following days of the summit brings.
Jay
Horse trading at the expense of purported sacrosanct principles and ideals is the name of the game for every politician.
Here some history lesson.
Some of the reasons for China’s occupation of Tibet !
The kowtowing to the Chinese CCP has taken on such an unseemly servile cowardice that we could imagine a day not too far off when this tyranny will call ALL the shots without scrutiny or recriminations, and our politicians will hasten to please their new masters, though it seems that this has already become the norm.
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