{"id":466548,"date":"2017-04-05T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=466548"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:26:25","slug":"trump-faces-down-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=466548","title":{"rendered":"Trump Faces Down China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Brian Maher<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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This post Trump Faces Down China appeared first on Daily Reckoning.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a \u201cvery difficult\u201d meeting.<\/p>\n

It isn’t every day that an American president so bracingly expresses his misgivings about meeting with a foreign head of state.<\/p>\n

But it’s not every day that a Donald Trump is the American president.<\/p>\n

Chinese President Xi Jinping drops in tomorrow for a two-day t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with his U.S. opposite. The proceedings take place at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach bunker.<\/p>\n

They promise to be\u2026 delicate.<\/p>\n

They say styles make fights. If so, this one could be Ali-Frazier\u2026<\/p>\n

In the one corner we have Trump \u2014 blustery\u2026 boorish\u2026 diplomatic as a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n

In the other we have Xi \u2014 measured\u2026 inscrutable\u2026 master of the subtle arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cXi and Trump are not natural friends,\u201d said one former senior U.S. Asia specialist, by way of understatement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese leader is a very serious man,\u201d adds Zhu Feng, professor of international relations at Nanjing University. \u201cAny tricks that Trump wants to play would be perceived as some sort of humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

How will the meetings go?<\/p>\n

Swimmingly, we hope.<\/p>\n

Regardless, there’s one item you can bet will be top priority in Palm Beach tomorrow\u2026<\/p>\n

North Korea.<\/p>\n

North Korea has its own Manhattan Project going. And many analysts think it’ll be able to strike America’s West Coast with nuclear missiles in a few short years.<\/p>\n

Jim Rickards:<\/p>\n

The situation has become critical. North Korea has enough highly enriched uranium or plutonium for about 10 warheads. Its miniaturization and weaponization technology is well advanced. Its missile tests have moved from short range to intermediate range and are now on the brink of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Once a warhead is mounted on an ICBM, Los Angeles is in imminent danger. North Korea is about three\u2013four years away from this goal. <\/p>\n

But Jim says Trump will never allow it:<\/p>\n

Now the Trump administration has drawn a line in the sand and made it clear North Korea will not be allowed to carry out its plans. Either North Korea will desist or the U.S. will attack pre-emptively. <\/p>\n

Note in passing: Military action possibly means full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, the Pentagon estimated another Korean War would produce 250,000 American casualties. And maybe a million dead Koreans.<\/p>\n

Disconcerting.<\/p>\n

Who else doesn’t want war on the Korean Peninsula?<\/p>\n

China.<\/p>\n

China considers North Korea a buffer state. It keeps the Americans out of China’s backyard. And North Korea’s constantly digging its thumbs in Uncle Sam’s eyes\u2026 a Lilliputian tying down the American giant.<\/p>\n

War would likely result in a North Korean loss and a reunified Korea under South Korean leadership.<\/p>\n

That is, China would be bordered directly by a U.S. client state.<\/p>\n

China entered the Korean War in 1950 to prevent that very outcome. Successfully, we should add.<\/p>\n

So Trump wants China to use its leverage\u2026 to strong-arm the North into ending its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

China provides North Korea massive food aid, for example. And it accounts for some 90% of North Korean exports, such as they are. Mostly coal.<\/p>\n

In fact, Trump’s come out flatfooted that China \u2026read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Source:: Daily Reckoning feed<\/a><\/p>\n

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