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That's just the problem: KJU has Xi advising him in how to deal with Trump. Between the two, I pick Xi.
If that is the case, I will break open the champagne bottles. Xi would lock up the NK nukes and yank the nuclear trigger away from Fat Boy. Somehow, I doubt Fat Boy would let in even a token of Chinese troops as a show of "solidarity." KJU kowtowed. He did not let in a Chinese Governor.
If that is the case, I will break open the champagne bottles. Xi would lock up the NK nukes and yank the nuclear trigger away from Fat Boy. Somehow, I doubt Fat Boy would let in even a token of Chinese troops as a show of "solidarity." KJU kowtowed. He did not let in a Chinese Governor.
So again, we're back to the Fat Boy and Trump.
That's....none of what I said. :-(
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
You said Xi would be advising KJU. Xi, more than anything else, wants to turn North Korea into a production factory so that the threat of refugees would be gone once and for all and for that, he needs stability and that means no nukes.
In order for KJU to not fear of a South Korean invasion, the Chinese would have to guarrantee North Korean Independence and the only way to do that is to put Chinese troops into North Korea to calm KJU's nerves without nukes.
KJU went to Beijing with hat-in-hand and was obedient. KJU was told that he would have to go begging to Seoul and to Trump. Trump will demand the denuclearization promised by Fat Boy and he will demand the job done before payment. Now, who could satisfy both? Xi. With Chinese troops in North Korea.
Something that I seriously doubt will happen since Fat Boy is not serious.
Something that I seriously doubt will happen since Fat Boy is not serious.
100 percent in agreement with you.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
You said Xi would be advising KJU. Xi, more than anything else, wants to turn North Korea into a production factory so that the threat of refugees would be gone once and for all and for that, he needs stability and that means no nukes.
In order for KJU to not fear of a South Korean invasion, the Chinese would have to guarrantee North Korean Independence and the only way to do that is to put Chinese troops into North Korea to calm KJU's nerves without nukes.
KJU went to Beijing with hat-in-hand and was obedient. KJU was told that he would have to go begging to Seoul and to Trump. Trump will demand the denuclearization promised by Fat Boy and he will demand the job done before payment. Now, who could satisfy both? Xi. With Chinese troops in North Korea.
Something that I seriously doubt will happen since Fat Boy is not serious.
Are you saying that whatever KJU is doing now is done at the behest of Xi?
Are you saying that whatever KJU is doing now is done at the behest of Xi?
I'm saying that KJU has gone begging to Xi and Xi has laid down his terms. Xi wants stability in North Korea so there is growth. Getting rid of KJU would not increase stability at the moment.
Xi Jinping is going to take the nukes away from Fat Boy, but let Little Rocket Man keep his?
Compared to Trump, Xi is the Little Rocket Man. The IAEA states the PRC has enough fissile material for ~400 nukes. Trump has at his command over 8000. Xi is ridiculusly small when compared to the American nuclear arsenal.
Xi wants stability in North Korea so there is growth.
Encouraging growth in NK so as to prevent a refugee problem is a sound idea and one the Chinese have been pushing for over ten years
Why the delay from NK ?
Is the NK leadership afraid that growth will lead to social and political instability, if anything it should cement the leaderships hold like it has to a certain extent the CCP
Or is it the determined nature to pursue nukes until success meant sanctions that precluded any chance of growth.
Which is exactly why they should be treated like a live hand grenade with the pin pulled and no spoon.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Deng's no saint but like I said. People just disappearred. Deng didn't need show trials. But one thing I will say for Deng. He loved China more than he loved his legacy.
I think Kims plan is to dangle enough/give enough concessions to South Korea and Japan that they keep Trump from launching a preemptive strike.
Or at least keep Trump from launching a strike from either SK or Japanese soil.
The peace talks will take years to hash out. China will have to be a part of them. Discuss kidnapped Japanese people being allowed to return or given the option. First a list of those kidnapped as an incentive for the Japanese to pay war reparations to North Korea, like Japan did to the south.
Discuss kidnapped Japanese people being allowed to return or given the option. First a list of those kidnapped as an incentive for the Japanese to pay war reparations to North Korea, like Japan did to the south.
Japan was not a belligerant in the Korean War. She has no say in any peace treaty.
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