China is evolving politically to be acceptable to the majority thqat is young and prospering and intent on continuing to prosper.
You think in outmoded terms of Chicoms when the reality in China is a nation evolving increasingly into Chicaps.
If that is true. Then the timing of Korean "unification" is everything.
It is hard for me to fathom the WSJ is just getting the idea that a huge part of this is the work of China. Yuge. Trump may have had Xi right next to him. They act surprised......
Maybe their journalists are young and horribly inexperienced in the way things really work too, like most of the mainstream media
Well, like the President says..... we’ll see.
But consider the fact that the geographically limited Pearl River Delta has experienced tremendous urbanization, industrial growth and population increase. In a decade or so, this rather geographically small region of China has grown into the 13th largest economy in the world. Taipan has triumphed.
It is populated by ambitious and relatively prosperous young people that want the good life. They have rejected the poverty of the hinderlands and moved from home to something new, something attractive, something different.
It is this movement that will be the driving political force. The government will evolve into who knows what but it will not back track into the old Maoist ways.
I’m pretty sure Kim, who after all is young, is motivated by the same forces and sees President Trump as a useful tool in transitioning his very backward nation into change.
We’ll see
it is mostly populated by ambitious young people who like the good life