China's leaders won't be very open on their opinion of this issue, even though China's position is against terrorism and maintaining public support for the United States. Beijing cannot publicly support Megawati to crack down harder on Islamic radicals, nor can they support Indonesia's recent softening of commitment to crack down. |
From China's point of view, there is a political agenda -- to get the ASEAN members to work more closely together. |
I think if they cooperate well, Indonesia may become a main supplier of oil to China in the future. |