Posted on 06/11/2017 6:11:59 AM PDT by blam
Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured US President Donald Trump that China has limited influence over North Korea, but that's only half true.
It's true that diplomatic relations between the two are weak. Xi has never visited Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, and Kim has never been to Beijing. High-ranking officials with ties to China in North Korea have been executed at Kim's order, sometimes with packs of dogs, sometimes with anti-aircraft guns.
But Gordon Chang, the author of "The Coming Collapse of China," writes in The Cipher Brief that 90% of North Korea's trade is done with China, accounting for 90% of its oil and, in some years, 100% of its aviation fuel.
After a provocative North Korean missile launch in 2003, China cut off its supply of oil to North Korea for three days. In no time, the Kim regime caved to international demands and sat down for the six-party talks on nuclear disarmament.
"China can disarm North Korea in the blink of an eye," Chang wrote.
And it could do so by crippling North Korea's economy — but at a huge cost to North Koreans.
Sanctions on North Korea do not affect regular trade. Although the UN takes very seriously the prospect of an aggressive, nuclear-armed North Korea, economic warfare in the form of too-harsh sanctions would harm or kill civilians — China also supplies at least a third of North Korea's food, according to Chang.
Additionally, China pressing North Korea to the point of regime collapse would contradict its interests, as Beijing doesn't want to face a strong, democratic, unified Korea on its border that could play host to US military installations.
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Pyongyang doesn’t need a perfect missile. Detonating a nuke above Seoul—or L.A.—would sow chaos
> Kim has never been to Beijing <
It’s time to invite Kim to Beijing. Invite him in such a way that it would be an insult for him to refuse. Then once he arrives...
Great til you realize Chang wrote this book several years ago & the “coming collapse” is nowhere in sight
The North would start a war for survival sake.
China scared of a reunified Korea? Just move the DMZ to the Yalu.
Guess where NK gets their rocket technology? DUH! China!
China is clearly supporting NK/Kim’s giving us and the rest of the world the finger and anyone that cannot see that is blind, or stupid, or a communist/liberal/progressive/CNN/MSNBC/Democrat......(they are all the same...)
“Then once he arrives...”
As is the Chinese custom, send Kim’s family a bill for the bullet they used.
“Pyongyang doesn’t need a perfect missile. Detonating a nuke above Seoul—or L.A.—would sow chaos”
My hope has always been one of the outlying islands of Hawaii. SOMEONE, Kim, China, Russia, the US, needs to fire off one of these things to demonstrate, once and for all, what an EMP can do.
For that is the ONLY chance we have to snap out of our complacency before we’re looking a holocaust on our mainland.
It I so easy for us to forget the bilateral approach the Japanese took in the lead up to Pearl Harbor...
Clinton gave the chi-coms the info on missile technology. And got large campaign contributions as a result.
The Clintoons r so guilty of giving away missile & satellite technology! Guess what??? The Clintoons got away with murder and theFake News crowd has never brought this out. Our Fake News crowd is dead to a lot of folks!!!!
yup. He and Obama are both traitors.
You are too optimistic. People won’t wake up until the EMP affects them personally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
On al very limited scale, and almost by accident, the US created an EMP in a 1962 Pacific nuclear test that knocked out power in the Hawaiian Islands.
“After a provocative North Korean missile launch in 2003, China cut off its supply of oil to North Korea for three days. In no time, the Kim regime caved to international demands and sat down for the six-party talks on nuclear disarmament.”
That was then... the Norks have a demonstrated nuclear capability now. All strategic calculations must now account for that.
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