Nous pouvions régulièrement discuter avec d'éminents spécialistes chinois de la question nord-coréenne qui nous parlaient abondamment de leurs frustrations par rapport à ce pays en soulignant que l'Occident croyait à tort que la Chine était vraiment capable d'exercer une influence.
One of the things that certainly kept coming up — and we had quite regular and open access to very senior Chinese experts on North Korea who would speak quite effusively about their frustrations with North Korea — was that there was a misperception by the West that China really was able to influence.