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| 2010-11-30 |
| [Straits Times] CHINA, long viewed as North Korea's protector, increasingly doubts its own influence and would support the peninsula's reunification if the regime collapses, leaked US documents said Monday. Over an expansive dinner last year, the Chinese ambassador to Kazakhstan revealed that Beijing considers North Korea's nuclear program to be 'very troublesome,' according to a memo obtained by whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. Ambassador Cheng Guoping 'said China hopes for peaceful reunification in the long-term, but he expects the two countries to remain separate in the short-term,' said the leaked cable by US Ambassador Richard Hoagland and reprinted by Britain's The Guardian newspaper. In another cable reproduced by The New York Times, a Chinese official whose name was removed said that Beijing believed North Korea had 'gone too far' after carrying out its second nuclear test and firing a missile. The official told a US diplomat 'that Chinese officials had expressed Chinese displeasure to North Korean counterparts and had pressed (North Korea) to return to the negotiation table,' it said. 'Unfortunately,' the Chinese official was quoted as saying, 'those protests had had no effect'. 'The only country that can make progress with the North Koreans is the United States,' the Chinese official was quoted as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Actually it probably won't work that way. I suspect China and South Korea get the brunt of dealing with the collapse of North Korea. Taiwan will probably shift more towards China though, but not as part of any deal, but because they see that the US is a bit fickle when it comes to defending others these days. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-11-30 16:45 |
| #4 The beginning of a good, old-fashioned Realpolitik bargain being constructed? China gets the Will someone wave a paper and declare "Peace in our time..."? |
| Posted by: magpie 2010-11-30 15:05 |
| #3 Bring down South Korea by dumping the North on them. Bring down the US by dumping Mexico on them. A pattern emerging? Quote Professor Henry Higgins "By George I think you've GOT IT". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-11-30 11:07 |
| #2 Bring down South Korea by dumping the North on them. Bring down the US by dumping Mexico on them. A pattern emerging? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-30 07:50 |
| #1 IMO this proactive view by China will depend on how things are in outcome vee OKINAWA + TAIWAN + VIETNAM = CHIN'S DESIRE FOR "WARM-WATER PORTS". As QUEEN VICTORIA would say, Beijing thus far is "NOT AMUSED" at INDIA + RUSSIA + JAPAN + USA being allowed to set up in EVERYBODY-BUT-CHINA'S-NEW-BFF VIETNAM [Gulf of Tonkin/Sea of Vietnam = SOUTH CHINA SEAS]. And CHIN must know that RUSSIA'S PROPOSED NEW SUB, MILBASES in FORMER JAPANESE KURILS WORKS ASMUCH TO ISOLATE + MIL DETER CHINA FROM NORPAC + ARCTIC + RUSS FAR EAST AS IT DOES SCARING THE BEJESUS + P **** OFF JAPAN UNTO DEV NUCLEAR ARMS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-30 00:31 |