Posted on 07/25/2017 9:12:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China reportedly boosts defense preparations along North Korean border
China is said to have increased its military defenses along its border with North Korea.
This comes as President Donald Trump considers a military response to Pyongyang's provocations.
Both U.S. and Chinese officials continue to push for a diplomatic solution, rather than a military one.
Christine Wang
China has ramped up its defenses along its border with North Korea to ready itself for a potential crisis on the peninsula, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper reported Beijing has increased surveillance of the border region as well as a "combat readiness-level big data disaster recovery center." The military has also conducted drills and transferred units from other regions, the Journal reported.
The Journal said that these measures parallel President Donald Trump's comments that he is considering military action to curb Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and that Beijing should do more to handle the matter.
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OK it’s an incursion after we engage in shock and awe. Before? Let the Chinamen go in and do our work.
China is simply preparing for refugees at the border.
Hawaii, otoh, is prepping their people for a nuclear attack.
In short, everyone one knows his target is us.
No,
the last thing the chi-coms want is for us to get in a pissing contest where we, the U.S.A. quits purchasing their worthless crap.
Too many folks to have a serious economic downturn.
Time for another Boxer Rebellion.
Time to read this again (from 2014)
Here Are 5 Ways the Unthinkable Could Happen: A Nuclear War
There are paths to nuclear war that rely on the most durable source of war there is: human stupidity. If the major powers dont bumble into a nuclear war, or get dragged into one by their friends, they can always just choose to launch one themselves.
During the Cold War, NATOs strategy was actually quite simple. We cant defeat you, we told the Soviets, and so if you invade Western Europe, you will be placing us in a position where we will have no choice but to repel you with battlefield nuclear weapons. You Soviets, having been nuked, will have no choice but to respond, at which point the U.S., Britain (and maybe even France) will turn the USSR into glass, even as you will do the same to us. So lets not take that fateful step, because the first rifle fired in Wurzburg will inexorably lead to the last missile that falls on Vladivostok.
North Korea threatens ‘merciless blow’ to US as data shows Moscow aiding regime
Russian exports to North Korea essentially doubled in the first five months of 2017, according to new data.
Some experts suggest Moscow will continue to use North Korea as a lever point to extract concessions from Washington on Syria, Ukraine and other issues.
In response to U.S. official embracing regime change in North Korea, a Pyongyang official vowed Tuesday to “strike a merciless blow at the heart of the U.S. with our powerful nuclear hammer.”
That was then. Now we are indeed America Alone, as Steyn wrote.
China's going to be between a rock and a hard place if they're not careful...
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