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| China bids to ease Koreas tension |
| 2010-11-27 |
| Beijing has held talks with Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang on the tense situation following North Korea's deadly bombardment of a South Korean island, the Chinese foreign ministry has said. China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi held phone talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill... on Friday. He also spoke to his South Korean counterpart and met Pyongyang's ambassador to Beijing to discuss the situation. Precise details of what was discussed were not given, but the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said North and South Korea and the United States elaborated their positions on the situation. Washington and Seoul have both appealed to Beijing to use its influence to rein in its wayward ally, but Beijing has so far refused to take sides, merely calling for "restraint" from all parties. Yang urged Seoul and Pyongyang to exercise calm and restraint and solve problems through dialogue, a ministry statement said, according to Xinhua. "The pressing task now is to put the situation under control and prevent a recurrence of similar incidents," he said. The United States and South Korea are planning joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea on Sunday as a show of force against Beijing's ally North Korea, prompting criticism from China. Earlier on Friday, Beijing warned against military activity in its exclusive economic zone, echoing remarks it made a day earlier opposing the US-South Korean war games. Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, in the first highest-level Chinese response to North Korea's attack, said that China opposes military provocations in any form. "China has all along devoted itself to maintaining the peninsula's peace and stability, and opposed military provocations in any forms," he said during a visit to Russia on Wednesday. The US later on Friday sought to reassure China, insisting that the war games were "not directed at Beijing". "The Chinese government was informed of our intent to conduct this naval exercise in the areas west of the Korean Peninsula," said Pentagon front man Darryn James. "It is important to point out that this exercise is not directed at China. As with previous exercises in this series, these operations are defensive in nature and designed to strengthen deterrence against North Korea," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 HMMMMM, HMMMM, wehell, we'll see, espec as 2011-2020/2025 > IMO BOTH THE US-CHINA SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE MORE + WORSE MIL INCIDENTS. Besides everything else, NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION = MORE + MORE AGGRESSIVE, BELLIGERENT "YOUNG TURK" GOVT-STATES [Nuclearized?]ARE OUT TO ASSERT + PROVE THEMSELVES AGZ THE OLD GUARD. Again, "GLOBALISM" + "OWG=NWO", ETC. DOTH NOT AN END TO THE "GREAT GAME" MAKETH. * ION PHILIPPINES DEFENCE FORUM > [Armed Forces of the Philippines] AFP SAYS ITS READY TO HELP SOUTH KOREA CONFRONT NORTH KOREA, wid Mil Forces iff it need be. * SAME > EXPERTS: NORTH KOREA NEEDS 30 YEARS TO CTACH UP WID SOUTH. Seoul should expect costs of reunification to cost W$3.5-7.0TRILYUHN [W=Won], more than cost post-Cold War/Berln Wall Germany on its West-East reunification oer 20 years. * TOPIX > [Manila]GOVT TO ORDER/REMOVE FILIPINOS TO JAPAN, iff Tensions worsen between two Korea or War breaks out. Also in the PHILIPPINES> MUSLIMS AT MARAWI RALLY DEMAND SHIFT TO [full] MORO INDEPENDENCE, Its NOT mere "Local Autonomy" anymore. ------------ * WMF > VARIOUS REGIONAL, INTERNATIONAL MEDIAS: CHINA FACES "FORK IN THE ROAD" ON DPRK RELATIONS. * WMF > US TO CONVERT GUAM ISLAND INTO REGIONAL MILITARY SUPERBASE FOR ASIA-PACIFIC PROJECTION + CONTROL: BESIDES US MARINES FROM OKINAWA, THE US INTENDS TO DEPLOY A HEAVY NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER + CARRIER BATTLE GROUP, US MARINE AMPHIBIOUS STRIKE SHIPS, NUCLEAR SUBMARINES + "GLOBAL STRIKE" UAV DRONES. GUAM-BASED BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE. * TOPIX > US AIR FORCE "READY TO STRIKE" IFF KOREA TENSIONS ESCLATE. * SAME > NORTH KOREA TO TEST MEDIUM-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSLE? MRBMS. -------------- * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM THREADS > ARTILLERY EXCHANGES BETWEEN TWO KOREAS A PIVOTAL TEST FOR CHINA? * SAME > JAPAN TO CHOOSE NEW SUB BASE TO COUNTER CHINA. ARTIC = At SASEBO, to complement already pre-existing JMSDF Sub Bases at KURE + YOKUSUKA; Japan to also increase number of JASDF Fighter planes on OKI from curr 20 to 30 by 2020 * SAME > US SETTING UP "ROW OF BOULDERS" COUNTERSTRATEGY AGZ CHINA'S "STRING OF PEARLS"? ARTIC = Since CHINA is TOO ECON IMPORTANT to the US, the latter prefers to set up various, seemingly disparate REGIONAL, GEOPOL OBSTACLES TO DELAY CHINA OR CAUSE IT TO STUMBLE = "TRIP ON ITSELF" HAPHAZARDLY??? * SAME > AN ASSERTIVE CHINA THE "NEW NORMAL"? ARTIC = US-WEST/WORLD is entering vee CHINA a newfound, PROLONGED PERIOD OF GEOPOL TENSIONS + INCREASING FREQUENCY OF CHINA-VS-US-WEST DISPUTES. * SAME > IS PYONGYANG TESTING CHINA'S PATIENCE? BEIJING MUST WORK TO BALANCE ITS CLOSE TIES WITH NORTH KOREA WITH DESIRES TO BE SEEN AS A RESPONSIBLE MEMBER OF THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. ARTIC > XPERT = believes that DPRK LEADER KIM JONG-IL "IS NOT SIGNIFICANT/IMPOR TO CHINA, BUT CHINA STILL PROTECTS HIM". POSTER = believes NORTH KOREA is trying to see iff CHINA is its Friend or not??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-27 01:17 |