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He is the author of the book "meltdown." could you please shed some light on china's position in all of this? because china has always said to be the single country that has the most leverage over north korea. and china has been either reluctant or unable to use its leverage over the past year to limit to put a cap on all this military testing in north korea. >> well, the characterization of china is both accurate but not completely accurate. the chinese do have leverage because most north korean trade and fuel supplies and so on all go through china. but for a variety of reasons the chinese s...

Strategic decision on how to move forward on this whether by diplomacy or whatever other way is better than diplomacy. but most people think it should be diplomacy. >> thank you so much. christiane amanpour, cnn's chief international correspondent. thanks. christiane talking there about china and their philosophy toward north korea. andrew stevens is in china. and first of all, interesting that christiane brought up the point that china although has been pressured by the united states and other countries in the region has not put the pressure these countries would like to see on north korea ...

>> he's got to have people who he feels are going to be unquestionably loyal to him, who are not going to undermine him, who are going to protect him under all circumstances. >> and that's something which analysts say china is hoping for as well. the chinese are believed to dislike kim and disapprove of his nuclear buildup, but many experts believe the schchinese would rather see him in place with nuclear weapons than see him loose his power or the regime collapse and have millions of chinese at the border. >> thanks. we want to turn to what we're seeing in texas and the recovery from harvey a...

Hydrogen bomb-powered north korea, why would they give them little bits, if you will, or give them the know-how to build this? >> well, they've done it since the '50s and '60s and '70s. today i think north korea has really advanced its knowledge, not necessarily with china helping, but china does not have interest in nuclear north korea. it's just that china's interests is so different from ours in that their priority number one is not letting the north korean regime collapse. so it's not that they want nuclear north korea. but where our priority number one is not letting north korea go nuclea...

>> china has few peek in capability to pressure china. they failed to exert that pressure because they fear regime collapse. they understand despite the nuclear program the regime is much more fragile than appears on the surface. they fear collapse because of catastrophic consequences for china. there is know point whatever in continued negotiation with north korea. if we are going to have a diplomatic solution and we are returning out of time, it will be by persuading chain eighth's in their national interest to reyou night the two koreas. we are running out of time. we don't have good option...