China massing troops give the nutty statements of North Korea’s leaders a very serious cast. They could clean our clocks. Americans can only think in economic terms saying such gems as “China won’t attack” they would upset their economy.” China does not think in such terms.
There are a variety of false claims in the article besides the one about our DEFCON status.
One problem with DUMBKA, Wing Nut Daily, and to a lesser extent Bill Gertz is that evidence proving them wrong is often classified. They don't have nearly the accurate access to insider or classified information that their fans think; in the case of WND they are pretty much just making stuff up; for Gertz, he's very hit or miss; sometimes he does have accurate info and other times he's hilariously wrong.
For DUMBKA and WND, their modus operandi is to get page hits from excitable and stupid people with interesting, scary information, which is often a combination of false info with info they just grab from other news sources.
And what’s worse is Obama Co. apparently think China is wavering on N Korea.
First off, China is not dependent on the US anymore. They have a gigantic internal market that is nearly as big as ours. And it’s growing fast. It’s not 2000. Their FDI in Latin American matches ours, and dwarfs ours in developing Asia and Africa.
More importantly, China will never tolerate U.S. troops on their border.