USA Today: With North Korea crisis mounting, Trump meets with Chinese President Xi
HAMBURG — President Trump met with his Chinese counterpart at the G-20 summit Saturday, hoping to revamp a relationship that he once hoped could provide the key to resolving the North Korea crisis.
Saying "something has to be done" to prevent North Korea from developing a nuclear missile, Trump thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for his work on the issue.
"It may take longer than I'd like, it may take longer that you'd like," Trump told the Chinese premier. "But there will be success in the end one way or the other."
But as Trump returns to Washington on Saturday night, there were few visible signs of progress on North Korea. And in fact tensions escalated even as the summit was going on, with the United States flying two strategic bombers over the peninsula in a deliberate display of the U.S. ability to retaliate.
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2 comments:
Trump is right! things will end one way or another
The point was that it was a threat.
It will end peacefully or it will end in violence.
Trump is giving Xi a chance to end it peacefully.
China's goal is to not have the U.S. in what it regards its sphere of influence. It regards all of Korea, South & North in its sphere. It's goal is to not have U.S. troops there (& perhaps to not have a U.S.-South Korean defense pact nor U.S. significant trade with South Korea.).
China could accomplish this by making North Korea not a threat to South Korea, Japan or the U.S.
Given the budget etc, the U.S. might just well withdraw its troops while maintaining a defense treaty with South Korea and occasionally drilling with them (like once a year). GWB withdrew 3,000 troops due to budget constraints caused by the War in Iraq.. But China will have none of that. Either they are TFS to see it or they want it all their way.
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