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China-Japan-Koreas
Top Chinese Official 'Sees No Special Relationship with N.Korea'
2013-05-28
Senior Chinese official and roaming regional ambassador Wang Jiarui recently described his country's ties with North Korea as merely "normal relations between states," a lawmaker here said Monday.
If the Chinese really mean that it would be a significant change, but it isn't clear that they really mean it. If their relationship with the Norks is simply a 'normal' one (as normal as one can have with a rabid, genocidal thugocracy) then let them, for example, charge the Norks a market price for oil. That would be a clear indicator.
Yoo Ki-june of the Saenuri Party's Supreme Council was speaking after he led a group of 10 ruling and opposition lawmakers on a visit to China last week.

Yoo told Saenuri leaders that the group met senior Chinese officials like Wang, the director of the Communist Party's International Department, and Chongqing party secretary Sun Zhengcai, who handle Korean affairs. "In my meetings with them, I sensed a lot of change in Chinese diplomacy toward North Korea," Yoo said.

Yoo later told the Chosun lbo, "Wang called Beijing-Pyongyang ties 'normal relations between states' while explaining his country's relations with North Korea since the North's third nuclear test. He implied that Pyongyang is so recalcitrant that it's hard for Beijing to influence it."

"In the past, China tried to defend the North even if it had made mistakes, but this time all Chinese officials we met openly complained about the North," Yoo added.
Perhaps the Chinese will yet get to the point that putting down the rabid dog, and dividing Nork-land between themselves and the ROK, will make sense...
In a separate telephone interview, Democratic Party lawmaker Ahn Gyu-baek, who was also part of the group, also said, "When we met Wang, I urged China to play a leading role in persuading the North to return to the six-party nuclear talks. But he said that the U.S. and South Korea rather than China are key to the role. It sounded as if there was some change" in China's relations with the North.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  IIRC, this an old Artic that came out on the MSM-Net about the same time that China was repor attempting to make new strategic rapprochement wid SOKOR in bypass + slight to the North.

IMO the above means or infers that Beijing considers NOKOR its sovereign territory in all but name = official change.

Beijing is getting that much closer to TAIWAN, i.e. "Mahanist" China's "Pearl Harbor/Hawaii" into the deep Pacific towards CENTPAC, EASTPAC, + WESTERN AMERICAS.

IMO the US quietly recognizes China's ambitions...

E.G. TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > COMMANDER: NO TIME LIMIT TO GUAM THAAD DEPLOYMENT.

* SAME > [Oman Tribune] MANILA VOWS TO FIGHT TO "LAST MAN STANDING" OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA [islands disputes].

* SAME > [SCMP] PLA'S THREE FLEETS MEET IN SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR RARE SHOW OF FORCE.

* WORLD NEWS > [Asahi News] OKINAWA ASKS IFF JAPAN IS TRULY A SOVEREIGN NATION, free from US domination or control.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > TRUE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL INDEPENDENCE FOR THE RYUKYUS [Okinawa = 100+ islands/archipelago] CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED + RECOVERED UNDER CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY. RYUKYUS HISTORICALLY VIEWS MAINLAND CHINA AS ITS HOMELAND.

* SAME > INDEPENDENT RYUKYUS TO HELP BREAK THE US' STRATEGIC CONTAINMENT OF CHINA IN EAST ASIA. JAPAN ESCALATING ITS INTEREST IN RETURNING TO RUSSIA'S SAKHALIN ISLAND TO COUNTER CHINA IN SENKAKUS + OKINAWA.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > DID CHINA DISCOVER AUSTRALIA?

* SAME > CHINESE NAVAL VESSELS HEAD TO PACIFIC VIA MIYAKO WATERS. 2 ea. PLAN DDGS + 1 ea. Supply Ship.

RELATED SAME = ...
> OFFCIAL CHINESE MEDIA [People's Daily Online] LASHES OUT AT AMERICA, vee "The Unreliable +
Untrustworty American" propanganda series.
> CHINESE NAVAL VESSELS EXPEL JAPANESE VESSELS [carrying Japanese Nationalist Activists] OFF DIAOYU WATERS.

* CHINA TIMES > SPRATLYS INVASION - PLA GENERAL [MGEN. Luo Yuan].

ARTIC = TAIWAN-PHIL DISPUTE is opportunity for China to seize up to 8 SCS islands currently held by the PHIL.

* PHILIPPINE STAR > CHINESE WARSHIP CHASES AWAY KALAYAAN BOAT CARRYING NEW MAYOR-ELECT.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TAIPERI PREPARES FOR LONG STAND-OFF WID MANILA.

RELATED SAME = ...
> TAIWAN MOVING TO END "SOUTHERN FISHING LINE", which will extend operating limits/jurisdiction of Taiwanese Navy + Coast Guard closer to the PHIL but still widing Taiwan's claimed EEZ.
> PLA NAVY PATROLS BASHI CHANNEL BETWEEN TAIWAN + PHILIPINES.
> IS CHINA INSERTING ITSELF IN TAIWAN-PHILIPPINES SPAT?

Lest we fergit, in Beijing's mind, what Taipei = Taiwan controls, it also controls as per the "One China" Policy.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-05-28 01:15  

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