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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Sometimes it really is as simple as it looks.
At this point, the simple reality is that NK has hydrogen bombs and is threatening nuclear war with other major world powers, including the US, Japan and SK.
It’s not just common sense but plainly obvious that China is their primary economic and political enabler.
If China isn’t willing to cut them off completely for risking starting a nuclear war with the rest of the world then one must assume that China is not merely accepting of NK’s actions but actually WANTS and APPROVES of them.
Imagine if Canada started threatening to nuke 3 other nations on a weekly basis and launched ICBMs out into the ocean toward them all the time? Would we, as Canada’s primary economic partner and ally, prop up their rhetoric, support their government and give them all the trade they could ever want? No, we’d be horrified. We’d be apologizing to the rest of the world for them. Ultimately, we’d have to DEAL with them because they’d be inviting justifiable war onto our continent from external sources and we couldn’t allow that risk. Why doesn’t China fear that enough to act? Because they must be content with and support what is going on.
China has shown no real high level worry about NK’s actions. There’s no news storm going on right now about Chinese diplomats furiously working with NK to disarm the situation. No begging with Kim to meet with them and discuss disarming for mountains of cash and economic help. We aren’t hearing about that. No daily threats from China that they will be leading the charge to obliterate Kim’s regime if he pushes this too far. No threats to take his country from him over his bringing nuclear brinksmanship to their very doorstep.
And after all this and the hydrogen bomb test, they should have been first in line to support a total fuel embargo and an outright blockade of NK until the regime comes to the table or falls and gets replaced with something better and less dangerous to the world.
But... they don’t want regime change. Why? At this point we would probably smile and thank China for replacing Kim with a new more docile puppet government. But they don’t want to do that. Why?
What other conclusion can we come to other than NK simply IS China’s war proxy in the Pacific? That’s the only answer that covers every question.
And whether the Russians love us or hate us right now, it is very disappointing that after the Cuban missile crisis they aren’t more firmly against rampant nuclear threats. We almost learned that lesson the hard way and there wouldn’t have been any more lessons.
In a sane world no one on any side should care what happens to Kim at this point. But China still cares. And it’s making China look like an outright mortal enemy of the US and several other nations right now. That’s not good. And I’m not sure that the ambitious men ruling China fully understand how far they’ve already fallen in the eyes of the rest of the world. This proxy game is only good so long as the instigators seem apart and separate from the source. Unfortunately North Korea is so completely bizarre you can’t do anything but instantly point the finger at China and say “It only exists because of them.”
I don’t trust them. Never have really.
It would make the liberals up in a riot over how everything is less cheap than it used to be.
Time to show dying and starving baby pictures from N.Korea (along with buckets of drowned girls from China) and the hanging human limbs (arms and legs) in North Korea Meat Stalls....
To heck with trade embargoes — sea mine one of their freaking harbors and say, “Keep it up, fatso, and we’ll mine ALL of your harbors and mine the Yalu River and blow the river’s bridges.”
W
Cut off ALL trade with China. They’d be crushed with the unemployment, and possibly revolution.
If we can’t produce at home all of what all we get from them, we can find another source of cheap labor somewhere else in the third world. Hopefully where some quality control exists.
There’d be economic pain for us in the short-term, but it wouldn’t last.
Chortle. The exact opposite is true, in fact.
Work Harder. China has been standing in the way of economic sanctions that really have teeth.
So, who is providing the Norms hydrogen bomb technology?
We should start fighting back in the trade war with China we are in now regardless of the DPRK issues. They are separate issue. Bannon was correct in that assessment.
We go hot with China that's the end of Free Trade. For that reason I do not fear Chinese aggression. I say bring it baby.
Plus in a hot war we can start to publically tar and feathering Free Traitors™,
It would break them, not us.
Worth repeating.
BS. New suppliers will pop up over night.
The saving form using cheap Chinese labor is 5% tops. It's pennies on the dollar.
Apple can build an iphone factory in the USA in 3 months. Ground breaking to production.
BS.
So true.
How can NOT BUYING imported goods tank an economy? Seem consumers would save a lot of money buy putting of spending while domestic suppliers come on line.
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