by Michael on Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:19 am
I thought it was hilarious in that interview with CNN, after Rodman was done, James Clapper comes on and starts talking about how doing business with a brutal dictator like Kim is wrong, their human rights, blah, blah, blah, but it's pragmatic to talk to them, or somesuch horseshit. Hilarious.
IMHO, in regards to "human rights", or even common sense for not getting cheated, China is infinitely worse than NK to do business with, or have diplomatic relations with, but powerful people in the West dearly, dearly, deeply love how the Chinese government gets things done. And geez, if we don't trade with the Chinese, the other guys will, so our hands are tied. Gotta do what's best for the stockholders.
Before the West started trading with China, North Korea was richer and NK people on the border gave food to starving Chinese, or sold black market goods to them. Now the West gives everything to China and puts sanctions on NK, who are destitute, and then we blame the NK govt for being despots. But the Chinese aren't because their literal slave labor, as well as sweat shop factories, give the impression of increasing profits.
If there is any moral principle being applied by the USA or the West to China, besides the profit motive, I certainly can't find it. What's really hilarious is that the foolish Trump seems to have actually made a series of deals with Xi that require NK to give up it's nukes and Trump to help China do bidness in America, like clearing the ZTE deal, which the Senate appears to be ready to squash. Thank Ford that multiple dunderheads working against each other are right twice a day like a broken clock.