Michael wrote:More hardcore tweeting, brah! What else? Since that's about the level of our amazing political representatives these days.
It's like the ZTE deal (with the Chinese state-owned company that received sanctions); it's pay for play. Just follow the money.
However, when you look at the militarization of the South China Seas by China, Trump appeasement for NK is not a small price to pay.
As I don't see a return to the Total War approach to international intervention, I don't agree that the US would win a war with North Korea.
We've heard nothing about China giving up building islands or giving up the ones they've built. It's fine to talk about demilitarization, but China is not demilitarizing and will remain the "super power" in the region. Of course, Japan is also militarizing to some extent.
If you mean that Trump makes a deal with China in order to get them to maintain pressure on NK, that could be true. But, as I've said, there's very little discussion of what Trump is giving up for a deal.
Mr Moon, who brokered the summit between Washington and Pyongyang, likely used Saturday's meeting to confirm Mr Kim's willingness to enter nuclear negotiations with Mr Trump and clarify what steps Mr Kim has in mind in the process of denuclearisation, said Hong Min, a senior analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification.
Moon and Kim talk at a table in the demilitarised zone
Photo: Mr Moon and Mr Kim speak at a footbridge at the border village of Panmunjom. (AP: Korea Summit Press Pool)
"While Washington and Pyongyang have expressed their hopes for a summit through published statements, Mr Moon has to step up as the mediator because the surest way to set the meeting in stone would be an official confirmation of intent between heads of states," Mr Hong said.
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