Facing threats and angry condemnations from the US for not having resolved the North Korea situation for them, Chinese officials are now suggesting that they are backing away from the situation themselves, and expect the US and North Korea to work it out by themselves.
Chinese Ambassador to the UN Liu Jieyi warned that China had no way of yielding practical results by themselves on the dispute, and pushing for the “relevant countries” to get back together and resume diplomacy.
China has been pushing diplomacy as a strategy for months now, an idea that the Trump Administration has been sour on from the start. They have some ability to push North Korea to participate in such talks, but the US has objected to the very notion of sitting down and negotiating.
Ambassador Liu’s comments clearly reflect growing frustration with the Trump Administration, which has argued that China needs to “do more” to solve the dispute, but refuses to explore any of china’s proposals because of their distaste for diplomacy.
What ever happened to Trump’s claim that HE, himself, is the greatest deal-maker of all time? If he’s the greatest deal-maker of all time then dealing with the NK should be a piece of cake, shouldn’t it? Unless The Donald was lying and he’s actually afraid of sitting down across the table and working out a deal. Deals done in the civilian world are easy to keep private…deals made at the Presidential level, however, cannot. So, whatever deal that might be hammered out would be public knowledge for anyone to analyze and critique. Maybe his deals would supplant Obama’s Iran deal as the absolute “worst deal in the history of man.” That would be bad for his image. Better to not even go there, eh, Donnie?
Trump is a phony and a joker. He has no real talents, was born into great wealth and has at least 4 major bankruptcies, with dozens of business venture failures. Most people who post here are more intelligent and educated than Trump is.
The U.S. has no desire for diplomacy with North Korea.
It is not being creative, nor constructive, nor respectful.
What the U.S. wants is the Korean peninsula back in its fold,
and to place its military apparatus along the Chinese and Russian
borders, so the war has an Eastern Front.
Hopefully Russia and China wake up to this fact before it is too late.
The only chance of survival for North Korea would be a declared and
signed declaration of mutual protection between these countries,
just like NATO has done in the Western Front.
When the US realized Kim Jong-Un will not back down and their bluff is being called, rather than go to war with somebody who can and will fight back, or be seen to withdraw from this confrontation, the US now hope China can get them out of this dangerous situation which their own belligerence has caused.
And I’ll bet the Chinese are chuckling to themselves over tea because they’re really not interested in bailing the US out of the unintended consequences of their own arrogance and utter stupidity.
It’s truly a shame that possibly hundreds of thousands of people are going to have to die because two narcissistic authoritarian ass holes who are essentially the mirror image of each other are trying to prove to each other which one has a bigger penis.
That is essentially what this is about. Isn’t that generally what most wars are really about anyway?
Inscrutably Chinese: stating the obvious.
Trump’s still stuck on: I gave them cake and they let me down.