IHT Rendezvous: China Calls for 'No Delay' on Gun Controls in U.S.

China, which enforces a near-total ban on the private possession of firearms, has called for stricter gun controls in the United States. On the same day that a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six women at a school in Connecticut, a man in China stabbed 22 children and an 85-year-old woman. There were no fatalities in that attack, although some of the children reportedly had their ears and fingers cut off.