Tim Johnson, the China correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, had an interesting story up over the weekend on his blog, China Rises. According to Johnson, Sha Zukang, “the Chinese diplomat who suggested last August that Washington should just ‘shut up and keep quiet’ about China’s defense spending has just gotten a big promotion.”
The “un-diplomatic” diplomat, Sha Zukang, just won a plum assignment near the top of the United Nations hierarchy. He’ll be under secretary of economic and social affairs, a post just under Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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