In comments to the Wall Street Journal today, President Trump conceded that his previous assumptions about China’s “tremendous power” over North Korea turned out to not be true, and that China’s President Xi Jinping explained the situation to him during last week’s visit.
Trump now says he realizes it’s “not so easy” for China to just order North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, and that “it’s not what you would think.” In the lead up to Xi’s visit, Trump had repeatedly demanded China resolve the situation, threatening for the US to impose a solution if they didn’t.
This doesn’t explain President Trump’s comments after the Xi meeting, however, because as recently as yesterday he was still talking as though he believed China could “solve” North Korea for him, and even publicly offered them a “better trade deal” for doing so.
Now that he’s come to the realization that China can’t snap its fingers and expect North Korea to obey, at least in some statements, it’s not clear how that will impact US policy, as Trump is keen to “do something” about North Korea, and if he’s finally convinced China can’t, that might serve as a pretext for unilateral action.
What a worthless braindead piece of sh-t.
The perfect choice for the southern hillbillies, to have his finger on the button to start a nuclear war!
Its actually really clever and totally inline with what DC does, cause problems for its competitors. The Chinese are faced with 3 unpalatable options 1 the status quo a nuclear armed Kim regime. 2 NK falls into Seouls (and DC’s lap) and DC is on Beijing northern border peering in through the windows 3 China invades NK to stop that and faces a protracted Guerrilla war from Kim Bitter Enders.
In case you forgot. DC was once on Beijing’s northern border peering in. That did not end well.
When I considers how old China is I do not see that your #1 is all that unpalatable. China can wait much, much longer than Trump can legally be our president.
Meanwhile, the CIA and Pentagon prefer to allow two North Korean satellites to cross over the continental US twice a day rather than take them out safely over the oceans, because if they have EMP that is what.. a new Pearl Harbour 2.0 ?
Trump: Any luck convincing North Korea to dump their nukes?
Jinping: Any luck getting Mexico to pay for your wall?