[caww]

It's well known China enables Fat Boy......and it sure as heck is well known to Trump and this administration as they have time and again spoken ‘clearly’ regarding China's influence over N. Korea and all it's leadership.... So they certainly know what they are doing with China's involvement as well as the risks.

But unlike Fat Boy China rarely reveals their intentions, keeping everything they do or not very close to their chests. Their nature has been and continues to be deceptive at best.....Trump is well acquainted with how China operates...publicly they will always play neutral referees /good boys in any conflicts they are involved with...... privately is another story all together. ...Saving face is off the scales important to them......N.Korea will always be their proxy leverage but only to a point. Today is not the same climate as in Fat Boys fathers day......."They are learning"......

[Starboard]

Saving face is off the scales important to them

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Interesting you should say that. I once had a colleague who was from Taiwan who said the same thing. I didn’t really appreciate how important this cultural trait was to them until hearing it from someone who lived there. Saving face is close to an obsession with them.