[familyop]

Ping for TLR.

There it is, official word from the PLA to North Korea and the West. And it argues against every realistic way of stopping North Korea from continuing its nuclear weapons buildup. So Kim Jong Un is notified by the PLA that China will help him to keep his nukes. In diplomacy, China will happily continue with any agreements devised as stalling tactics against the West.

Obviously, the ChiComs want the U.S.A. out of the way of their plans for freer parts of Asia and Europe. We’ll see what Asians and Europeans want: freedom or occupation and enslavement by China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Syria, etc.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is a predictable response. They could scream at N. Koreans to behave, but their official stance may not change. The question is whether they would acquiesce when they are ‘overruled’ by U.S.. Global Times is an attack dog mouthpiece. It pushes the envelope as far as it can. Their tone has been vacillating between stalling tactics and dire warning of imminent destruction of N. Korea. It is their typical pattern that, after such a vacillation, the official stance returns to the old party line, believing that there would be no imminent military action from U.S.. There should be a response which can fundamentally change the strategic landscape of E. Asia against the interest of China, in order to drive home the message that sticking to status quo will also have consequences just as damaging.

[familyop]

"The US should not stand by this so-called "first stage," merely waiting for some miracle to happen. Sanctions from Beijing will not inspire instant change over Pyongyang's nuclear program...Although China's sanctions may impose some difficulties, North Korea will not collapse as a result."

Very interesting messages to North Korea between the lines.