Era of abstention shifts to confident veto

Global Times Sunday 5th February, 2012

Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, said that the US was "disgusted" by Russia and China's decision to veto the UN resolution on Syria. Such language appears on China's freewheeling Weibo a lot, but now it comes from the mouth of a veteran diplomat. This might be "disgusting."Since 1971, China has vetoed UN Security Council resolutions eight t...

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