The Contest Of The Century (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND THE UN WHEN BARACK OBAMA MADE his first-ever trip to China in November 2009, he got to meet most of the country’s top leaders, with one very notable exception. That same week, Zhou Yongkang decided it was the right moment to take a large Chinese delegation to Sudan. A member of the all-powerful nine-man Communist Party Standing Committee, Zhou had the day job of running China’s vast security apparatus. It was he who orchestrated the arrest of Liu Xiaobo. But Zhou [pronounced Jo] also occasionally dabbled in foreign policy. When the ailing Kim Jong-il unveiled his twenty-something son Kim Jong-un as his successor during a mass rally in Pyongyang in 2010, Zhou was standing right next to him on the platform. Zhou has also been one of the linchpins of China’s close ties with Sudan. During his trip to Khartoum, Zhou met with Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, who, partly as a result of U.S. pressure, had been charged four months earlier by the International Criminal Court in the Hague with genocide and crimes against humanity.
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