Posted on 12/02/2014 6:59:23 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China 'will not go to war for North Korea'
Retired People's Liberation Army general says China will not step in to save neighbouring North Korea if Pyongyang regime collapses
By AFP
1:30PM GMT 02 Dec 2014
China will not step in to save neighbouring North Korea if the Pyongyang regime collapses or starts a war, a retired People's Liberation Army general said, possibly signalling waning patience in Beijing with its wayward, nuclear-armed ally.
"China is not a saviour," Wang Hongguang, formerly deputy commander of the Nanjing military region, wrote in the Global Times newspaper, which is close to the Chinese Communist Party.
"Should North Korea really collapse, not even China can save it," he said.
Wang's comments came in a contribution to the nationalist tabloid's Chinese-language website.
The outspoken Wang has made critical comments about North Korea before and it was not clear whether his words indicated a policy shift regarding Pyongyang.
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And we are supposed to believe this?
Could be merely a sternly worded letter.
Active Duty ping.
October, 1950.
Not what Mao practiced.
“Mao, The Untold Story”
Where’s the picture of O’ to go with the littlest pig’s picture?
Why not?
NK is really becoming more trouble than they’re worth to China. Its likely that China has some more favorable leadership in mind anyway.
Now that fits!
China isn’t going to risk it’s own prosperity over the nutjobs in Pyongyang.
They aren’t a client state, anymore, and haven’t been for around two decades now.
China, for years, has used NK as a buffer zone and a distraction, to let them fall to something other than another Communist regime would not be to China’s best interest. IMHO
Yalu Balu-ny
Da World PoPo.
LOL!
Sounds good, if they make this credible it sure changes things.
The German reunification was awfully expensive and this will be, too, but if anyone can afford it, it’s South Korea. China has many billions of dollars in trade with South Korea, why throw that away?
We don’t hear much from Unie anymore.
What is the NK economy? They must produce something of value to sell to someone in other parts of the world.
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