China Wants Asian as UN Secretary-General

With Kofi Annan's term as UN Secretary-General ending in 2006, China has started a push to have his successor be from an Asian country. According to Zheng Qirong, an expert from the China Foreign Affairs University,

"Since U Thant from Myanmar assumed the UN secretary-general from 1962 to 1971 an Asian hasn't had the opportunity to take up the job," said Zheng. "Therefore, the public opinion holds that the United Nations should be put under the leadership of an Asian this time."

I don't know how Zheng got from A to B in the quote. It must be Chinese logic.