Details are starting to trickle out of how close the French/Chinese fault line was to sinking the London summit. The Guardian is reporting that, remarkably, Tibet was the key issue linkage bringing the Chinese to the table on tax havens.
Read the article, its worth all the details, but I'll sum it up by saying it ultimately took a late night meeting between Sarkozy and Hu at the French president's hotel, and a last minute intervention by Obama, to smooth over the differences.
All sides are backing the account of Obama's last minute intervention; it seems the young US president is making good on his promise of a new era of US leadership.
