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2010-01-09 China-Japan-Koreas

China Opposed to Korean Reunification, Says U.S. Expert

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 WMF > US IN TEARS: CHINA, RUSSIA PLAN AND ARE WORKING TO EMPOWER A "POST-US NUCLEAR AGE".

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BHARAT RAKSHAK > TIMES OF INDJUH > IS CHINA'S ECONOMY HEADED FOR A CRASH? Bubbles, Bubbles, toil and PRC-endangering credit bubbles.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-09 01:01|| 2010-01-09 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Joe's onto something, namely what happens when a floating currency sinks.

PS - warm in Guam today? Snowing in Florida this morning.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-01-09 11:27|| 2010-01-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 China is opposed to a unified Korea following a collapse of the North. Who would have guessed that a Western South Korea with a grudge against China for propping up the North, now inheritting North Koreas nukes. Good thing we have experts. I never would have guessed that one. China needs to take over the North. Demilitarize them and start to fix them this would get the Us out or in a bad position and prevent a collapse and allow them tograb any nukes and erase any evidence.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2010-01-09 11:49|| 2010-01-09 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 It is the job of the South Koreans to convince the Chinese of several facts of unification that could be broadly in China's favor.

The first of these is that North Korea is dangerously unstable, and this instability is almost as threatening to China as it is to South Korea.

Second is that North Korean illegal aliens in China are caused by this instability as well, and if stability and some degree of prosperity is restored, then many or even most of the Koreans in China will want to go home.

Third is that Korea mostly does things "The Chinese Way", so it offers no cultural menace to China.

Fourth is that a unified Korea's natural alignment is with China. After unification, billions of dollars of trade going back and forth. While South Korea will be paying to restore North Korea, the materials, equipment, and labor will to a great extent be Chinese.

Fifth is that South Korea doesn't want nukes, at would be quite happy if China would police every bit of it up and take it to China for disposal. And once those nukes are gone, nobody else in the regions will want nukes either. Especially not Taiwan or Japan.

Sixth is that the US would probably be very happy to retreat to just a single naval base in Pusan, if that. This would take a lot of pressure off the Chinese navy

If done properly, reunification of Korea could be a windfall for China in a bunch of different ways, just for the cost of ridding themselves of a crazy pest.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-09 13:05|| 2010-01-09 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Agania airport weather, Guam: wind ENE 13kt, few clouds at 2000, 5000 scattered, 10000 scattered, temp 79F, dewpoint 73F, altimeter 29.90 rising. No snow in the terminal forecast at this time.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-09 18:45|| 2010-01-09 18:45|| Front Page Top

#6 How is that germane to the discussion, Alaska Paul?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 19:30|| 2010-01-09 19:30|| Front Page Top

#7 There's a theory that JM is an AI program residing in a USAF weather computer on Guam.

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-09 20:12|| 2010-01-09 20:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Nonsense, Pappy. Who ever heard of an AI with a grandmother who tells stories of the Japanese invasion of Guam?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 20:26|| 2010-01-09 20:26|| Front Page Top

#9 "How is that germane to the discussion, Alaska Paul?"

I'm guessing it's because it's a lot warmer and more comfortable there than in Korea, tw.

Hell, that's a lot warmer than our "sunny South" right now. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-09 21:37|| 2010-01-09 21:37|| Front Page Top

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