An interesting take on POTUS policy for China and NK. I would very much be interested in the reaction from our esteemed members and even a few steamed ones.
President Trump Announces New Sanctions Against North Korea…
I do find it fascinating that the media coverage of the sanction actions is so shallow and thin.
I also find it amazing that Bush, Clinton and even Obama did not use this level of sanctions. It is as if we were really playing to lose for the last three administrations.
I wonder what South Korea plans to do. People always talk about the North but the South I bet is prepared to handle the situation.
China is in a different situation than the Korean War. If they sided with the North and lost a big chunk of exports they would be hurting.
Only Trump can make China blink. Closing their central bank channels to the Norks is a show of weakness on their part, and evidence that Trump is making progress. I am actually beginning to pity those who continue to misunderestimate Trump’s cunning. Other than China and the Norks, Iran, and other such foreign policy challenges, on the domestic front of the swamp war, DOJ is going to gets their just desserts.
China has two factions, the war party and the money party.
The money party is being hurt for the first time.
The war party wants the US to use our missile defense so they can see how well it works and then will discard Kim.
The game is for POTUS to keep inflicting money pain until the war party is told to shut up. That involves not shooting down the missiles unless we will fully retaliate.
If Kim detonates a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific after lobbing it over Japan, POTUS will use that to shut China out of US markets.
Plausible scenarios.
The weakest is China’s desire to see our defensive systems in action. They’ve likely already stolen the secret performance data.
A bomb in the Pacific will elicit Strurm and Drang directed at the Nork military assets as well as monetary pain for China.
This is coming to a head.
Very interesting blog post. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t think I could say more than, 1) I have trouble accepting what is reported in the news as complete and factual in its entirety.
That is, I always wonder, what’s the rest of the story.
The rest of the news is that we are capable of shutting down their complete communications system and sending them back to using sticky notes. That will make co-ordinating any military response difficult if not impossible. I rather doubt the individual Mig pilots are anywhere near as good as out guys in F-18’s or even F-14’s. If this gets to be a shooting war, it’s over.
So the REAL question is who will “invade” the north first – S. Korea or China.