Posted on 05/26/2018 8:49:04 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
The mask is off. That is, it is for those willing to confront the true face of Communist China (even the use of that antiquated but accurate Cold War name still grates on many).
Beijing’s blatant sabotaging of the promising dialogue between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un puts the lie to the decades-old Chinese and Western triple myths that (a) Beijing shares the world’s concerns about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, (b) its power to do anything about them is quite limited, and (c) it will nonetheless make good-faith efforts to push Pyongyang toward denuclearization.
The uncomfortable reality always was that China originally helped Pyongyang get the programs started even as it pressured Washington to remove its tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in the early 1990s to ensure a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
In the following three decades, Beijing, with Moscow, did all they could to enable the programs to continue by protecting successive Kim regimes from United Nations-imposed and other economic sanctions intended to pressure them away from that dangerous course.
China always postured as if it cared about the emerging North Korean nuclear and missile threats and would do its best to curb them. Credulous Western governments and foreign policy experts were all too willing to give Beijing the benefit of the doubt and to accept its professions of good intentions.
Worse, to encourage China in this supposed partnership role, Washington and its allies gave it a pass on a range of issues where Beijing itself was transgressing international norms: on currency manipulation, trade restrictions, intellectual property theft, cyber attacks, Taiwan, navigational freedoms and territorial claims in the South and East China Seas, and human rights. Western governments were reluctant to hold China seriously to account in any of these areas because
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NBC is reporting that the White House has sent in the “pre-advance” team to prep for the June 12th Singapore summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=127564
Russia also, not as much as China...but it too shares a border with NK, there is active diplomatic exchange and shared interests between the two, and Russia has been openly violating UN sanctions on No. Korea.
I still prefer using the term "Red China" myself.
If China has THIS much influence over Norklandia, we are dealing with the wrong people.
We should simply put 50 MODERN versions of the Pershing II (Pershing III?) nuclear missiles in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Maybe Guam too and Philippines too.
50 in each.
Equaling the entire Chinese nuclear missile force.
And wait for them to give us a call.
The hate for Trump in the Comment Section is mind blowing. Well I’d expect nothing less of Liberal, Progressive, morons..
Why don’t we respond with killing Kim?
That would be a trick since Pershings were eliminated years ago by the INF Treaty.
“MODERN versions of the Pershing II (Pershing III?) “
The type missile you suggest would still be under the INF Treaty unless you make it an ICBM.
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