Posted on 09/04/2017 1:32:09 PM PDT by Hadean
China on Monday criticized President Donald Trump's threat to cut off U.S. trade with countries that deal with North Korea and rejected pressure to do more to halt the North's nuclear development.
Trump issued the threat after North Korea on Sunday exploded a thermonuclear device in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. The threat was seen as a warning to China, North Korea's main trading partner and only major ally.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, criticized Trump's stance as unfair to Beijing.
"What is definitely unacceptable to us is that on the one hand we work so hard to peacefully resolve this issue and on the other hand our interests are subject to sanctions and jeopardized," Geng said at a regular news briefing. "This is unfair."
Such an approach would be drastic if applied to China, from which the United States imports goods worth about $40 billion a month.
Trump said it was under consideration "in addition to other options."
Asked whether Beijing would support tougher U.N. sanctions such as cutting off oil supplies to North Korea, Geng didn't mention oil but said whatever happened would depend on discussions among council members. Geng said China, one of five permanent Security Council members with power to veto U.N. actions, would take part in a "responsible and constructive way."
Geng expressed frustration at Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's comment that Beijing had a responsibility to influence North Korea due to its status as the North's main trading partner.
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I bet China is behind North Korea acting up.
Naturally in the public they pretend they are not.
Too bad ChiComs. If it happens then you have no choice but to accept it - or you can take out Fat Boy. Your choice. Good luck facing the wrath of 100 million city dwellers who will instantly be put out of work.
If you’re going to fight NK, you’re going to have to fight China.
Like a shutdown, I think stopping all trade with China would be fun and good.
Kill your boy, then.
Can you believe the gall of these mo fos?? Um, your buddy Nork is threatening to nuke us if you haven’t heard and you guys are doing squat about it.
The Chinese just blinked.
They are behind all this North Korean baloney.
We ain’t cutting off trade with China.
Beijing is not too far west of North Korea. I wonder if one of their missiles could be hacked to have a little “malfunction”, whoops Tubby accidentally nuked Beijing. That may change their attitude a bit.
good, got there attention but they won’t really believe you unless you start sending cargo ships back to China. Either this is serious or it isn’t. If it is, sanction China heavily if it’s not the p!ease. Shut up about it
Conmunists always act like this. Nothing has changed. Communists are duplicitous and never keep promises. The ChiComms are just acting as usual.
What we need is a PR campaign demonizing china for it’s support of nk and. Make it clear to Americans that china is a threat and you should go out of your way not to buy china products or do without. I know the left will not participate, but true Americans will and it will heart china’s bottom line.
Unacceptable?
Since when is it up to anyone except us who we choose to trade with?
China created a monster.
Now that monster appears positioned to cause China a lot of economic harm.
Hmmmmmm...
Is there a solution to this China?
Get Kim under control if you value your nation’s economic status. NOW!
We can’t let Walmart go out of business. Our trade deficit with China is roughly 380 BILLION DOLLARS EVERY YEAR, so they know we are saps and won’t cut off their trade lifeline to our wallets.
Given a clear and stark choice as to which is more valuable to the Red Chinese, rationality comes down on the side of simply calling Fatboi to China and offering him a deal he cannot refuse - on pain of a sudden “disappearance” or equally mysterious fate.
North Korea may be allowed to remain “Communist”, albeit in the Chinese version, anyway. But a regime “modification” may very well be in order.
There may be several North Korean generals who have the capability to present a more “moderate” face to the world than the Kim family. Communists should not have royalty anyway.
China shows its colors. More reason to bring jobs back and buy American.
Without a total and complete embargo of Norklandia, and full blockade, there will be a nuclear war.
They must be brought to their knees and surrender sovereign control over their missile and nuke programs.
There might even be one if we convince China to follow through on the above.
They act like NK nuclear blackmail is supposed to be acceptable to the US.
Utter nonsense.
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