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2011-02-27 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese Businesses Pour into N.Korea's Rajin-Songbong

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Posted by Steve White 2011-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 This is symptomatic of the end of the Norks. The Chinese know that the game is over. They are now just putting markers down on the geography that they want to control after the Norks fall.

Expect a final partition of Norkland where the Chinese get the tasty port city and the Skors get the annoying surfs and nuclear wasteland between Rajin and Seoul, while the U.S. is politely asked to pack up and leave.

Posted by rammer 2011-02-27 01:18|| 2011-02-27 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Behold the Chinese long-term strategy of patience and long suffering or 'nie sing.'

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-27 01:29|| 2011-02-27 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Rammer: yup, that's how I see it.

Not that it would be bad for us to remove our military presence from the Korean peninsula in such a scenario. It presupposes a working accommodation between China and (now one) Korea; the former takes care of the northern enclave it has carved out and the latter works to rebuild the rest. As long as Korea isn't overly cowed by the Chinese, and as long as China doesn't use the end of the North to push aggression on Japan, I'm good with it.

We could then deploy our military assets elsewhere. Korea is strong enough to take care of itself, and Japan continues to work with us.

Posted by Steve White 2011-02-27 11:54|| 2011-02-27 11:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, I don't think such a future is really all that bad either, but it is important to point out the underlying importance of what is happening. As a Christian and an American, the most important thing in Norkland is liberating the Nork people, who are enslaved. And frankly, control of Rajin is worthless to everyone except China. Of course, China probably views the people of Norkland as worthless as well.

So here we have a potential strategic accommodation, where all parties get something they value, while giving up something which is worthless to themselves.

The sooner we start, the happier we all will be.

Posted by rammer 2011-02-27 23:05|| 2011-02-27 23:05|| Front Page Top

#5 The Maha-Rushian questionne' is how far KIMMIE + REGIME are willing to escalate matters as per PRESERVATION OF KIM FAMILY RULING DYNASTIC POWER IN NORTH KOREA, WHILE SIMUL NOT BEING BLAMED BY ORDINARY NORH KOREANS + SOUTH KOREA, ETC. FOR THE LOSS OF NORTH KOREA TO OVERT CHINESE CONTROL??

As for ambitious Rising China, de facto Chin takeover of the DPRK does NOT resolve its basic geopol problem as per [Mahanist]lack of OVERSEAS SOLE BASE RIGHTS = WARM WATER PORTS BEYOND THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", WHILE THE RADICAL ISLAMIST THREAT TO CENTRAL ASIA, + NUCLEARIZATION OF SAME [Ex-Soviet -Stans] DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR IT AS A FUTURE MACKINDRIAN GLOBAL-DOMINATING LAND POWER.

* TOPIX > POST-SOVIET NEO GLOBALISM. CIS COUNTRIES + GEORGIA STRAIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WID THEIR WAR EXPENSES | POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES INCREASE THEIR MILITARY BUDGETS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-27 23:52|| 2011-02-27 23:52|| Front Page Top

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