UNI88 wrote:CID1990 wrote:
I agree with the majority of this.
It won't happen, though. We will continue to tiptoe past the cemetery on the debt, and nobody understands China well enough to acquiesce to giving up Taiwan.
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I agree with almost all of it as well and I'm not sure China can realistically influence a reunification of the Koreas at this point. China is interesting, both complex and simple at the same time. I would hope that professional diplomats could figure them out but we keep stubbing our toes when we deal with them so you're probably right.
The Norks are easy to figure out but we won't wash our hands of them because our leadership is made up of politicians, and politicians must always be seen to be DOING SOMETHING
The bottom line is that when we ignore NoKo they start beating the drums. What we seem to never learn is that China will only allow them to go so far. China just spanked them by cutting off a lot of money recently over Un's antics and this development came with no urging on our part.
China will not allow a US ally on their border (though giving ground on Taiwan might change their thinking) and they also dont want a war on their border. So a stable Nork regime is what they want, and they will pull the necessary strings to get it.
We should ignore North Korea, but monitor them as far as their exporting of nuke tech goes. But we don't need to engage them to clamp down on that.
I'm also in favor of serving notice to the UN that they should pay for our presence in South Korea. Foot the entire bill, or send in a true multinational force to enforce the armistice. Otherwise we leave. We have exceeded our responsibilities there.
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