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2006-09-21 China-Japan-Koreas
ChiComs transfer emergency cash to NorKs despite rebuff on talks
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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-09-21 14:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Here, have some money, Kimmie. Keep the pot boiling on the Peninsula.

Yup, further proof that China has zero intention of seeking any solution to the North Korean crisis. China has bred up this rabid animal and likes to keep it chained on the porch to discourage any adventurers in the region.

At some point, the gruesome deaths of so many North Korean civilians needs to be laid at China's door. Starvation and cannibalism are the legacy of the Politburo's meddling.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-21 16:14||   2006-09-21 16:14|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the cash payment was less about buying off Kim to keep the trouble brewing than it was to stave off an implosion that China is unwilling and unready to deal with.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-21 16:17||   2006-09-21 16:17|| Front Page Top

#3 While I understand the distinction you are making, rjschwarz, anything that delays the meltdown of North Korea essentially prolongs the problem and thereby exacerbates the crisis.

Additionally, unless you want to consider extra border guards to be of merit, China is doing exactly nothing to prepare for the flood of Noth Korean refugee that would result from any disintegration of the Kim regime. This is why I frame the arguement as being one of China's perpetuating the problem.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-21 16:37||   2006-09-21 16:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not saying its a good thing. Clinton and friends should have let the North Koreans melt down a decade ago when everyone was wealthy enough to absorb the costs and before they developed nukes.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-21 16:55||   2006-09-21 16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey zen,
the famine in the ninetys in NK resulted in a million or so refugees flooding north into china. The chinese government whilst riddled with corruption and beurocratic ennuie is patrolling the border think mexico/us rather than the 38th parallel.
Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-09-21 16:59||   2006-09-21 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe they're trying to buy back their trains?
Posted by tu3031 2006-09-21 17:01||   2006-09-21 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Zen, I'm with RJS on this one. I think that there is a whole lot of internal political turmoil in China that we have no idea about. From everything I've been reading they have a lot of different trouble from the Muzzies in the west to the miners to the rich business types of HK. Each one has its own dynamic in the polit-bureau. NK has to be handled by them in that context.

The fact that we don't KNOW what that context is makes it hard to assess all the motives involved here.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2006-09-21 17:15||   2006-09-21 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 The fact that we don't KNOW what that context is makes it hard to assess all the motives involved here.

Very much agreed. I also think that we're all on the same page here. I just want to make sure that China is, in some way, held accountable for the standing atrocity that North Korea is.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-21 18:13||   2006-09-21 18:13|| Front Page Top

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