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   Ms. Ima said, 2 months ago

   Like China has a firm grip on North Korea? Other than giving them nukes that is. On the other hand, maybe China wants America to waste our resources on nutcase countries so they can grow?
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 2 months ago

   Send him to military school there lady. Like that would help. As Ima insinuated, China has little concern for N. Korea beyond what NK can do for China in the way of wasting America’s resources, that we borrow the money (from China) to buy from China. But the republicans should be happy, at least we are wasting “taxpayer dollars” on the military industrial complex. As long as we spend it on the military and things that don’t help the troops but enrich their friends the republicans are happy and quiet. Well except that saying that we need to spend more on military waste. And before any troll demands a quote, no one will say that overtly, but it is abundantly clear that the republicans don’t care about spending as long as it’s for their military contractor friends.
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   Omnius said, 2 months ago

   Yeah when is that Chinese Tiger Mom going to discipline her wayward little brat?
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 2 months ago

   While once upon a time China may have felt it prudent to help prop up North Korea because of ideological solidarity, these days it’s a more practical issue- China doesn’t want to see millions of starving, barely-educated refugees flooding over its border should North Korea collapse.
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   DavidGBA said, 2 months ago

   China feeds N. Korea, but is that a grip or a sort of blackmail?
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   Kylop said, 2 months ago

   @Omnius

   You are forgetting faith based initiatives.
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   Stipple said, 2 months ago

   @Kylop

   Could you expand on that? I am not seeing any connection of this comment to anything else posted.
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   Sometimes the comments are about a post that is subsequently deleted and it makes a puzzle.
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   Justice22 said, 2 months ago

   @TheTrustedMechanic

   On good authority, North Korea is no threat and the Korean War ended in 1953. (George W. Bush -when he reduced our troop strength in Korea by 2/3 to send them to Iraq.)
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   dtroutma said, 2 months ago

   The U,S, and South Korea keep holding “military training exercises”, and folks should look at how far NORTH those sea “games” go, due to a crazy boundary with islands that make “South Korea” run most of the way up the north. Thus, the U.S., and South Korea keep operating these “war games” WELL NORTH of the DMZ that separates the countries. THAT is a large, and honest, point of the North’s objections to these “games”.

   
   Just as Middle East “warmongering” comes mostly FROM Israel and the U.S., not “toward” them, and Israel sits on the most dangerous military, and nuclear arsenal (the ONLY ONE) in the region, blaming the much more populace, but relatively lacking of military power neighbors for the “troubles” IS the trouble.

   
   Also of course, the North can launch artillery into Seoul with no problem, so the “nuke scare” is also bravado that only inflames those as brain dead as the ones shouting it out!
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    Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago

    China could be allowing NK to test us in order to measure us for China’s own plans. The outgoing ‘president’ had a long speech calling for upgrading China’s military and restoring past glories. We don’t help matters by buying so many items from them or letting them make so much of our computer hardware. Before WW2, we sold a lot of scrap iron to Japan. We made money, but the dividends paid to stockholders was a bit steep, to say the least.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    mdavis4183 said, 2 months ago

    Except China has had enough of North Korea. China doesn’t want a war.
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    old1953 said, 2 months ago

    China is just about ready to “kill a chicken to scare the monkeys”, (taken from offical Chinese press). They’ll either take out NK or Vietnam. They’ve got good reasons for both, NK is simply going nuts, and they lost a war with Vietnam not many years ago and would like a rematch. In either case, they’d get serious chops in the South China Sea region for successfully overrunning another country and adding it to the empire. Nobody in the West would leap to the defense of either NK or Vietnam, making them the logical targets.
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    saywhatwhat said, 2 months ago

    @old1953

    You might want to re-think that one. The last thing China wants to do is “scare the monkeys”. Their biggest challenge in the next years will be to hold together what is essentially not a “country”, but the former Chinese Empire, re-branded. They truly want to annex Taiwan. Today, they can’t pay the price for that… maybe in a few years if exports to the U.S. stay strong.
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