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Chinese Takeaway & Korean Fireworks







My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie. Bindi Irwin

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect. Nicole Mones




"China wants to be able to establish itself using its own strength, real conditions, and within its own range of possibilities; on the other hand, China also wants to look for a “convergence point of interest” between itself and other countries around the world, including the U.S., to mutually benefit all countries."  -- Shao Binhong, China under Xi Jinping : Its Economic Challenges and Foreign Policy Initiatives 

Endeavoring, partially due to the constrictions of the Communist Party, to develop a more effective domestic identity, China shows evidence of an easier discovery of “convergence points of interest,” as demonstrated by its progress in constructing the “New Silk Road.”

While the U.S. would like to “convince” China that taking a stand against North Korea’s nuclear capabilities is a “convergence point of interest,” between them and the U.S., China does not see how that it is beneficial for their interests, at least at this time.




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CHINA

Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer









“I have no enemies and no hatred.”  -- Liu Xiaobo






  China banned coal purchases from North Korea after the February missile launch and assassination, without clarifying the degree to which these two North Korean provocations led to the Chinese sanctions.




 The argument was China, China, China. China wouldn't contain North Korea because it didn't respect Barack Obama, he [Trump] argued at one point. Were he president, he'd use economic pressure on the Chinese to get them to intervene.











NORTH KOREA


"The biggest tell that Trump wasn't prepared to deal with North Korea was a tweet on January 2. Trump explained that the country was developing a nuclear weapon that could strike the U.S. but that, on his watch, "[i]t won't happen!" This week, that promise looks awfully hollow. It was the sort of promise made by someone who is either vastly overconfident, vastly underinformed — or both."




















     

     The Feb. 12 missile launch may have been a response to a tweet the North Korean regime took as a challenge. During his Jan. 1 speech to the North Korean people, leader Kim Jong Un threatened to test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile in 2017. The next day, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted, “It won't happen!”
     Several days after the launch, North Korean media reported that the test was a “preliminary shot” toward the development of a North Korean ICBM. North Korean media taunted Trump by saying that despite his tweet he had “put forth no specific plan yet to put a brake on the action” of North Korea. So the missile launch was apparently a response to, and a test of, Trump. The message Kim wanted to send to his senior elites: He had achieved a great victory by standing up to Trump.   --  Bruce W. Bennett, Murder, Missiles, and Messages from North Korea https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/03/murder-missiles-and-messages-from-north-korea.html













"Every option the United State has for dealing with North Korea is bad."
NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you. 
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