The Chinese consistently said that they did not want North Korea to develop nuclear weapons, but claimed that they had limited influence over the regime, despite being its major supplier of food and fuel. The result was a somewhat scripted exchange in which China and the US would accomplish little more than professing denuclearization as a shared goal.
在这二十年中，美国和中国官员在公私场合频繁讨论朝鲜的行为。中国一直说，它不希望朝鲜发展核武器，但又称对朝鲜政权影响力有限，尽管它是朝鲜食品和燃料的主要供应者。结果中美照本宣科地声称去核化是两国的共同目标，除此之外再无建树。