Posted on 04/07/2017 4:48:40 PM PDT by springwater13
The American attack on Syria on Thursday unraveled China’s well laid plans for a summit meeting that would present President Xi Jinping as a global leader on par with President Trump, at once stealing the spotlight from Mr. Xi and putting him in a difficult position: choosing between condoning the kind of unilateral military action that China has long opposed, or rebuking his host.
Mr. Xi’s dilemma was also acute because China has generally sided with Russia in defending Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and because it worries that Mr. Trump might be prepared to order a similar strike on North Korea, Chinese and Western analysts said.
“Xi can’t fail to be impressed by Trump’s resolve,” said Alan Dupont, an Australian military analyst who worked for that country’s Defense Department. “Xi will have to reassess what the Trump presidency means for Chinese interests in East Asia, particularly North Korea and the South China Sea.”
The American strikes on Syria would quite likely make Mr. Xi be more amenable about the White House’s demand that China squeeze North Korea’s economy, analysts said.
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President Trump plays a very deep game.
3D Chess again?
This was the most sensible theory.
Much easier to flex our muscles even on a fake Syrian chemical attack than to screw with North Korea.
I think they got the message.
The NY Times peeing themselves again.
The timing of the bombing was meant to send a message. The bombs hit at the exact time Xi was leaving Mar-A-Lago to his hotel after dinner.
This was sending a message.
This entire article is a pretend idea.
Translation:
Trump pulled put a .45, laid it on the dinner table, and said, “Now let’s talk trade.”
I will be honest—The NORKs scare me cuz fat boy is crazy with a nuke. Much better if China/Japan can deal with him soon.
The NY Times is trying to stir up trouble between Trump and China. Typical. They hate Trump so much they don’t care how much damage they do to our country.
My initial reaction was that the Syrian bombing was a mistake into which Trump was tricked by the Washington intelligence establishment.
But given the timing, I’ll give Trump the benefit of the doubt and assume it really didn’t have anything to do with the middle east, and that it was really about China and the Norks.
Trump just put Xi in a position that if he doesn’t take care of North Korea, he will look like the biggest cuck of the region.
How many missile tests have gone on in N. Korea during U.S - China visits/negotiations?
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Mao Tse-Tung, echoing Sun Tzu, said politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with bloodshed. War and politics reside on a continuum. They are not a dichotomy. Therefore, I don’t have a problem with the air strike itself, because it was the only political way remaining to explain to Putin that he should exert a reasonable level of control over his ally. Evidently Obama did not explain the issue with sufficient clarity.
Trump essentially told Russia that Assad can kill all the people he desires in suppressing the rebellion, but must not use chemical weapons. In terms of a deeper involvement inside Syria, I have problem because our troops would have to shoot several ways at the same time with most factions arrayed against them.
Russia under Putin is pursuing a course Stalin, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev of the old Soviet Union would never have approved. For an ally like Syria, they would have authorized armed forces use only to the extent it was well within traditional actions that the Soviet Union would have been able to manage politically.
I would agree this is an appropriate message to China as well. They need to pay close attention to their lunatic ally.
Pussies Galore.
It shows up Xi for what he is. A second rate thug leader of a banana republic who’s not very important.
His country is important and could be great if not for leadership of thugs like Xi and his communist cronies.
“This entire article is a pretend idea.”
To a large degree, yes.
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