[kabar]

If no such U.S. cooperation is forthcoming, then China is threatening to impose stiff tariffs on U.S.-made goods and to cancel the five-way peace talks with North Korea.

Don't believe it. The Chinese have a huge trade surplus with the US. If they ever engaged in a trade war with the US, they would be committing economic suicide. In fact, trade is a huge lever for the US. To paraphrase an old Chinese saying, "Be careful what you threaten, you may get it."

[Filibuster_60]

The economic dependency increasingly runs both ways. China's now the second-biggest buyer of US government debt, so in a sense, they're financing our war on terror even as they help our enemies. And much of our retail economy depends on access to cheap Chinese imports.