United Nations Ambassadors Vasily Nebenzya of Russia, left, Liu Jieyi of China, center, and Nikki Haley of the U.S., right, confer after the United Nations nonproliferation meeting on North Korea, Sept. 4, 2017 at U.N. headquarters.
Oriana Skylar Mastro, Newsweek: Will China Invade North Korea and Take Its Nuclear Facilities?
On the surface, China’s North Korea policy seems relatively consistent. China is keen to demonstrate that it is cooperating with international efforts to rein in North Korea, including allowing the passage of various U.N. Security Council sanctions on the regime.
But China has also been unwilling to push the Kim regime as much as the United States wants, primarily for fear of provoking reckless behavior on the part of Kim Jong Un, as well as the loss of any influence China has left.
However, if one looks a bit deeper, China’s North Korea strategy is evolving in subtle and significant ways.
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WNU Editor: China may feel "boxed in" by North Korea at the moment .... Observers: North Korea Pushing Longtime Ally Beijing Into Corner (William Ide, VOA), but that is not enough for Beijing to order its military forces to invade into North Korea and seize its nuclear facilities and assets. If you break it you own it, and for now China has no interest in owning it. But the above Newsweek analysis is correct .... there has been a major shift away from North Korea by China, and it is still continuing/evolving.
6 comments:
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Anybody who is anybody in China will be at the big Party Congress shindig that will be held in Beijing. All under the same roof, just down the road from an apparent nutcase with the bomb. You can bet what's in the back of their and Xi's minds.
I did not think of that one James, but you are right.
Out of time
Xi is spinning a few domestic plates while he keeps NK in line, Once be gets reaffirmed for 5 more years, tbere could be better cooperation with US,
So far, North Korea has been a great blessing to China. Not only monetarily with China being north Korea's biggest (by far) trading partner, but also because north Korea kicks around the US and its allies - and the Chinese are loving it! So I don't expect any change in their policies towards north Korea. Sure. .there will be lip service, but north Korea and their actions are too good to be true to the Chinese.
Hence, they will double down on the following:
1. There's no real threat from north Korea, so don't do anything crazy you stupid Americans
2. We (China ) will not tolerate a war on the korean peninsula
Why?
Because it works.
Kim Jong aun is doing the dirty work for China. Threatening and harassing the western allies.something that's usually done by the Chinese fleet of ships in the south China Sea.
If China doesn't change its attitude, then war between us is almost guaranteed, because we won't live under nuclear threat any longer. Enough is enough.
Jimbrown. ..no. that's wrong. Xi is not embarrassed by north Korea. Nor is the Chinese party. They LOVE what's happening. They love that north Korea threatens us all and gets away with it. They love that north Korea drives a pillar between the alliance. They love that south Korea opted to stay out of this essentially by not getting their own nukes. They absolutely LOVE that north Korea is constantly flying missiles over Japan (historic arch enemy of China )
North Korea is china's wet dream come true. if you think China will change its policy you're reading too much of general political commentary without thinking and observing critically what's China actually doing vs what they are saying
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