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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| The North Korea gambit |
| 2017-08-14 |
| [IsraelNationalNews] First, understand that North Korea is a pawn in a geostrategic chess game being played by China and Russia against the United States. The North Korean nuclear missile threat is built on technology provided by Russia and China, to threaten and if necessary wage nuclear war by proxy against the U.S. and its Pacific allies. Their North Korea gambit is to so increase the nuclear threat against the United States, so that U.S. security guarantees to Japan, South Korea and other allies will no longer be credible. Will the U.S. sacrifice Chicago and Denver to protect Seoul and Tokyo? China, Russia, and North Korea don’t think so. ...Begging China and Russia to rescue the U.S. from nuclear North Korea plays right into their hands by messaging our allies that the United States is helpless, that real power over North Korea is not in Washington, but in Beijing and Moscow. Winning to Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang looks exactly like what President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, General Clapper, proposed in a August 8 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and what Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice proposed in the New York Times--learn to live with a nuclear North Korea. If the U.S. learns to live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, will we also learn to live with a nuclear-armed Iran? With China annexing the South China Sea and Taiwan? With Russia conquering the Baltic states and the other territories of the former USSR? Iran, China, and Russia will probably think so. This way leads to global nuclear war, or to global surrender by the West, and a new world order dominated by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. What do the swamp cares as long as they get rid of Trump? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Can't keep a debt bubble (in reality a land affordability crash) going without a bubble of population. The establishment in the west is subsidising the imports of gimmigrants in order to keep the bubble going to their benefit and our great cost. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-14 16:51 |
| #7 Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Dell and a number of other corporations along with their share holders will scream bloody murder. But, hey, screw 'em. China's economy is already shaky, I understand. They're being squeezed on low-cost manufacturing by Viet Nam and a few others, and at home they've got a major credit bubble threatening to pop. They wouldn't have to lose all their American contracts, just enough at the bottom to close a bunch of Walmart and Dollar Store suppliers. With regard to the companies listed: Mr. Wife spent a number of years as a Purchasing manager, and one of his concerns was to find and vet alternative suppliers for all of his raw materials, suppliers who could quickly get up to speed when, not if, problems cropped up with the current suppler. If Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, etc. are not taking this approach, they are fools. Floods, earthquakes, and electrical outages alone will shut down supplier production, never mind war and politics. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-14 15:58 |
| #6 North Korea is a pawn in a geostrategic chess game Not a Pawn, a Knight. Freakishly, they could advance either left or right left on their own council. China accepting the UN blockade on exports (should it even come to fruition) may be the threshold that triggers DPRK's myopic vision of being a world power. Much easier to use the Romeo's on Chinese seaports. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-14 12:29 |
| #5 the right motivation could boycott anything made in China with little the Swamp in Washington could do to prevent. The Chinese don't have a record of dealing with severe economic downturns. P2K: Might be a good strategy. Trump's initiative to "make products "American" and bring industry back" seems like a step in the right direction. China buys products from the Norks and helps support their pitiful economy. Pressure on China might squeeze the Nork economy even more and would either encourage them to become more bellicose or less. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-14 11:03 |
| #4 Make it clear that's on the table and the smart companies will expedite alternatives: Viet Nam, Latin America, .... |
| Posted by: Frank G on the Road 2017-08-14 11:03 |
| #3 Better get to it, P2K, the sooner the better. Only problem is that will cause some pain here in our country. Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Dell and a number of other corporations along with their share holders will scream bloody murder. But, hey, screw 'em. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-08-14 10:46 |
| #2 The Chinese ignore one aspect that their peril, the American public, who given the right motivation could boycott anything made in China with little the Swamp in Washington could do to prevent. The Chinese don't have a record of dealing with severe economic downturns. That would crash their market as well as the Chamber of Commerce/UniParty cabal left desperately searching for other bases of operation. I suspect a lot of 'relabeling' in Central America would quickly occur. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-14 10:14 |
| #1 I don't think China cares too much about Russia anymore. And, North Korea is not going to be acceptable to them as a partner - who needs a lieutenant that will not follow orders? Iran? No idea really, but a bit remote for China to care all that much. Russia is probably more interested in Iran than China, mainly for "thorn in the side" purposes. We call them "China", but the Chinese call themselves the "Middle Kingdom". I think that is their goal, to regain a perimeter of tribute paying nations that provide a buffer against invasions into the motherland. |
| Posted by: Beau 2017-08-14 07:54 |