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"Much of the world's population in North America, Europe, most of China and large portions of Russia live near temperate forests, so what happens in these forests has global importance, " said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington whose work was instrumental in maintaining the research plots.
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China provides most of North Korea's fuel and food aid.
NPR: Unequal, Uneasy: Life on the China-Korea Border
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Since China supplies most of impoverished North Korea's food and energy imports, it has considerable leverage over the country's regime.
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The success of a new round of sanctions could depend on enforcement by China, where most of the companies and banks that North Korea is believed to work with are based.
NPR: Furious Over Sanctions, NKorea Vows To Nuke US
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Most of the unit's activities took place in occupied Manchuria, in north-east China, where the victims of its ghastly experiments were Chinese, Koreans and Russians.
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China does not want instability and North Korea with the most logical next step of war against our South Korean friends and (to a lesser extent, though still preferred) the Japanese potential-friends-to-be.
FORBES: Japan and China: A Clash of Civilizations?
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In the meantime, it's the China-North Korea relationship that the savviest of Southeast Asia investors are watching most closely.
CNN: What North Korea could learn from Myanmar
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U.S. calls for China to use its influence with North Korea and Iran are just the most obvious examples of where Washington is asking for Beijing's cooperation.
CNN: Analysis: Keeping a check on America's banker
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China is North Korea's economic lifeline, providing nearly all of its fuel and most of its trade.
NPR: Bank Of China Cuts Off North Korea Trade Bank
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As for North Korea, it has got away with its nuclear defiance thus far because China, which supplies most of its food and energy imports, still refuses to contemplate sanctions that would force its boss, Kim Jong Il, to choose between his weapons and his regime's survival.
ECONOMIST: The spread of nuclear weapons harms China's security too