Furthermore, maintaining that fully fledged relations of peace must exist before talks on such a zone can commence, while at the same time persisting to maintain a nuclear option, are two mutually exclusive and contradictory arguments.

We also note that the alleged bandwagon and underdog effects are mutually contradictory, and further stress the unusually long period of 23 days required by the law.

What happened to those promising early signs of cooperation? Two reasons for the change in Chinese behavior seemingly inconsistent at first glance, but in fact perhaps mutually reinforcing seem possible.