[blasater1960]

"NK may not even be completely aware of China's ultimate game."

Spot on Man. China is in control of everything. They are giving Krazy Kim, just enough leash to work it's will. This NK stuff is probably more geared towards China becoming THE Asia boss and also giving cover to Iran. Iran needs to quickly finish the bomb and there are lucrative arms and oil deals for China. China wants Iran to have the bomb.

[blasater1960]

Furthermore, this is probably China saying, if you attack Iran for nuclear WMD, be prepared for war on the Korean front as well. NK is now sufficiently destabilized for a NK casus belli. Iran is heating up (especially after elections).

[SaltyJoe]

"China wants Iran to have the bomb."

There are a few items that would have me disagree with this.

Yes, the criminal mind would want to enable a very real trigger puller like Iran.

No, the cultural mind knows that to make war against Jews will have only a losing outcome.

No, the historical mind will note that Iran is very serious about exporting its brand of theocracy. The Soviet atheist learned what it meant to war against an Islamic neighbor. If modern Russia has extreme problems with Islam within its own country:



And if Russia still has massive Cold War Era weaponry and trained army to use it...

And if Russia still continues to have massive problems with a very determined internal enemy radically bent on self-determination...

Then will China want Iran to export their Jihad into the Xinxiang province?



We all know that the PLA is hugh, but is it hugh enough to cover all the people their grandparents have pissed off?

Chinese Army in Tibet

Uighur separatists

[lentulusgracchus]

China is in control of everything. ...This NK stuff is probably more geared towards China becoming THE Asia boss and also giving cover to Iran. ....China wants Iran to have the bomb.

You're an aficionado of the "borrowed knife" theory, under which, net-net, every nuclear weapon in the (third) world will be more of a problem for the U.S. than for China.

But why would China want Iran to have the Bomb? After all, China's no more Moslem than the U.S., or barely so. Why would an "Islamic Bomb" be of benefit to China?