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2013-04-07 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 00:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 So "we" don't have to deal with it after all?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-04-07 06:17|| 2013-04-07 06:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 13:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 18:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 18:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Nice to hear, Darth.

Posted by newc 2013-04-07 22:12|| 2013-04-07 22:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2013-04-07 22:14|| Front Page Top

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