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Winner for Sept. 10: China-North Korea relations

The voting is closed.

This week we're assigning the vote-winner, on the relationship between China and North Korea.

The subject is an important one and GlobalPost's editors are looking forward to devling into it. China's influence continues to grow worldwide and little headway can be made by the United States and others in their efforts to encourage North Korean reform without China's help.

Here's a link to the story, entitled Beijing's big gamble: Can it control North Korea?
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