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| China 'shifts position' on North Korea | |||||
| 2013-04-07 | |||||
There are clear signs that China is losing patience with North Korea, America's former top diplomat in Asia has said.
However, Kurt Campbell, the former head of the State department in Asia, said there are signs that a relationship once described by Chairman Mao to be "as close as lips and teeth" is wearing thin. "There is a subtle shift in Chinese foreign policy. Over the short to medium term, that has the potential to affect the calculus in north east Asia," Mr Campbell said at a forum at John Hopkins university.
Certainly North Korea no longer merits much respect among ordinary Chinese, who have taken to insulting Kim Jong-un as "Fatty Kim" or "Fatty the Third", in reference to his father and grandfather, on the Chinese internet.
Mr Deng argued that China's relationship with North Korea had become a liability. "Why should China maintain relations with a regime and a country that will face failure sooner or later?" he asked. "Once North Korea has nuclear weapons, it cannot be ruled out that the capricious Kim regime will engage in nuclear blackmail against China," he added. | |||||
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #8 See also RELATED TOPIX > CHINA WARNS AGZ "TROUBLEMAKING" ON ITS BORDERS IN VEILED THREAT TO NORTH KOREA. * Also from TOPIX > [ABS-CBN News] US LAWMAKERS: CHINA HAS FAILED TO REIN IN NORTH KOREA. VERSUS * IIRC FREEREPUBLIC, LINKIEST [fka CONSERVATIVE GRAPEVINE = paraph] > 10 BENEFITS CHINA RECEIVES FROM A SECOND KOREAN WAR/NORTH KOREA'S MISSLE THREATS. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Poster Opinion] CHINA'S [permanent] ANNEXATION OF NORTH KOREA [or BOTH Koreas] WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE US ANNEXATION OF HAWAII IN 1959, ala cementing strategic footholds in the Pacific. Actually, methinks that's more TAIWAN's job for China than the DPRK or both Koreas. A formal Chinese annexation of the DPRK per se puts China in a better position for trade + military domination agz JAPAN. China desires the Japanese Senkakus + even Okinawa to guard the maritime or Air-Sea approaches to, from TAIWAN [post-reunification], + it wants TAIWAN to guard its Coasts + Mainland from North, East China Seas to Hainan. BUT-T-T, FORMAL REUNIFICATION WID TAIWAN HAS STALLED INDEFINITELY, + CHINA HAS FAILED TO DIPLOMATICALLY PROCURE ANY "SOLE" BASE RIGHTS VEE THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", SO IMO MAINALND CHINA IS NOW MORE INTERESTED IN FORCIBLY = MILITARILY RESOLVING THESE ISSUES. The DPRK to China in 2013 is what Saddam-led Iraq was to POTUS Dubya in 2003 after 9-11. CONTRARY TO THE KNOWINGLY FALSE RABID ASSERTIONS OF THE ANTI-DUBYA, GOP-RIGHT DEMOLEFT + MSM-NET AT THE TIME, IRAQ = NORTH KOREA = DID HAVE NUKES + WMDS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-07 22:14 |
| #7 Nice to hear, Darth. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-04-07 22:12 |
| #6 truth is that the NORKs have been a liability to the PRC for many years the PRC is fiscally stretched this year by their own real estate bubble and since the PRC depends on exports which are hurt by the NORK antics, the NORK problem is worse this year of course there are still some who really like that the NORKs embarrass the US but that faction is getting old |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-04-07 18:30 |
| #5 "...lips and teeth." One of the more elegant analogies I've seen.... "...nuclear blackmail against China..." Almost enough to make you want to hold a telethon for the NORKS.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-04-07 18:09 |
| #4 It'll probably evolve along the lines of "you curb Japan and we'll try to curb North Korea". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-07 13:00 |
| #3 So "we" don't have to deal with it after all? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-04-07 06:17 |
| #2 "Oh dear! We're sooo fed up with Korea", said China, trying to look both serious and innocent. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-07 01:13 |
| #1 Heh. Probably wondering whether or not they really want to own that mess when it collapses. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-04-07 00:34 |