China and USA are in kind of a death embrace on the trade issue now. Both would take pratfalls if they released one another.
The practical result would be that China would sit there and cuss if Trump took down Kim, but wouldn’t do anything more. Not if they didn’t want to trigger an internal revolt.
That’s not something I relish seeing happen. I’m not sure we really have a choice though.
This could have been avoided if Clinton, Bush, or Obama had had half a clue.
HiTech RedNeck you are correct.
China is probably more capitalist than the USA. They have a large and growing middle class. In light of their middle class, China does not want an economic war with the USA. In a similar manner, the Chinese middle class does not want a military war with the USA. The 1989 Tienanmen Square protests was the rise of the middle class. The protest took the lives of thousands of China’s middle class. The protest made the case for economic power that the middle class was willing to die for. IOW, the Old Guard has the political power, the middle class has the economic power and proved they are willing to die for it. I’m confident that if the Old Guard goes to war militarily, the Old Guard will be fighting a two front war. One on the Korean peninsula and a rear-guard action against their middle class. Also confident the Old Guard realizes this could tear the country apart with the real possibility/probability of taking down the Old Guard.