In an effort to try to pressure China to agree to help the US in moves against North Korea, President Trump today insisted that China would either need to agree to assist the US or that the US would act unilaterally against the nation’s nuclear program.
The new interview, published today, saw Trump threatening to use trade as leverage against China to pressure them for cooperation. This comes just ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s planned visit to the US to visit with Trump.
That was likely to point, with Trump trying to set the stage for tough negotiations with China. His estimation that China has “great influence” over North Korea and could quickly solve the nation’s nuclear program, however, is unclear.
China has been trying to get involved in the North Korea dispute in recent months, agreeing to cut off coal trade with the isolated nation as a concession to the US, but also trying to negotiate a deal where North Korea would scrap its nuclear program in return for the US ending its wargames simulating invasions of North Korea. The US, in that case, rejected the idea outright.
If I were a resident of Seoul, I might seriously consider finding somewhere else to live for a while.
By now the Chinese people a so proud of what they have achieved in a very short time that they are willing to scale back to defeat the Trump bluster.
Bluster and threats by Trump? Or serious? We need to ask Raimondo because he seems to be holding strong on his support of his warrior president, Trump.
Jason Ditz, you’re doing a great job on upholding the antiwar cause. Unfortunately half your effort is being chopped off at the knees by Raimondo. He’s just offering encouragement to Trump supporters to continue to follow along with Trump. Every 4 or 5 thousand word essay by Raimondo are just encouraging the lunatics who support Trump to hold out longer. However, even with that, the majority are still with us on the common antiwar cause.
Raimondo will never sway thinking people of decency. And he’s never going to get the tiny bit of vindiction of his cause from Trump.
Don,
Where are these 4 or 5 thousand word essays you keep mentioning? They’re certainly not here on Antiwar.com (of Raimondo’s last five essays, the longest was a hair over 2 thousand words).
And they didn’t convince anybody new to his schtick on Trump. Maybe 4 or 5 thousand words will do it? He’ll let us know the word count. He has already and he’s made it known that he feels like he’s unappreciated by whining about the size of his articles. LOL
Oh, and he reads all this sh-t too!