It is also interesting that this world-historic scoop was leaked to a Japanese news office in Washington; none of the plugged-in American news organizations got the same story at that time (the only apparent corroboration is a statement in a July 2010 story by James Pomfret that Dai Bingguo has made the South China Sea core interest representation to Hillary Clinton during a "tense exchange" in May); and, as far as can be seen, nobody has ever asked Steinberg and Bader to confirm the report
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