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China’s leaders have made it clear that they believe their country is ascendant and should dominate Asia and eventually most of the world. China’s strategy is to be patient, plan carefully, and focus on the long-term. In contrast, Trump is guided less by strategy than by his personal intuition and desire for immediate political aggrandizement.
Critical to achieving China’s goals is weakening the previously strong alliances between the United States and the economic juggernauts Japan and South Korea. North Korea is an important and willing pawn in China’s strategy for achieving this result.
China will never allow North Korea to actually give up its image as a nuclear threat to South Korea and Japan. From China’s perspective, an ideal agreement between North Korea and the U.S. would resemble the following: North Korea will cease testing of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles — and it will make ambiguous promises about sometime in the future giving up its capability to make and deliver such weapons. In return, the U.S. will essentially bribe North Korea by promising to protect Kim from overthrow and to make North Korea rich. Trump will declare a “huge” victory and blame any shortcomings on his predecessors.
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6-12-18 The 24-hour, by-the-minute news cycle never fares quite so poorly as it does in an event that is significant to the historical record but that produces very little actual news. The summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore Tuesday morning was an excellent example of this shortcoming.
Following the “breaking news” from the summit, one could learn such colorful details as what Trump, Kim, and their aides ate for lunch, and that former NBA star Dennis Rodman — probably Trump and Kim’s only mutual friend — believes he should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in making the event happen. Between rounds of closed-door talks, Trump offered reporters a steady stream of optimism: The one-on-one meeting with Kim was “very, very good,” the men have an “excellent relationship,” it was an honor to meet him, “we’ll solve the big problem,” the meeting went “better than anybody could imagine.” Kim’s remarks were similarly cheerful and obsequious. None of these statements give any indication of the substance of the talks. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-kim-summit-was-a-good-photo-op-and-maybe-nothing-more.html
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6-13-18 The deal he struck with Kim, Trump said, meant there was “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” and “everybody can now feel much safer.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the administration expected “major disarmament” by North Korea before the end of Trump’s term in January 2021. Kim, or at least his country’s state-run news agency, said the two leaders had decided to end “extreme hostile relations” and described the beginning of a “step-by-step and simultaneous” process that would eventually lead to peace and “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”…
Trump’s all-is-resolved description seemed to fly in the face of decades of hostility, unkept promises, and the widespread belief, shared by U.S. intelligence agencies, that North Korea would never give up the nuclear weapons it sought for so long. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-korth-korea-no-longer-a-nuclear-threat-as-he-returns-to-washington/2018/06/13/b1d69566-6ef0-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1518f799ef9c
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'6-15-18 The international communist-capitalist conspiracy ha been running for a bit over a century. It’ s all about covertly hatching world control/dictatorhip and financial monopoly by hardcore elites. At the rate the iccc is going real verification of East-West deal-making will take decades, if ever. -r, mt. shasta
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