{"id":14993,"date":"2017-03-19T04:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T08:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=14993"},"modified":"2017-03-19T04:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T08:56:41","slug":"dont-believe-the-hype-chinas-north-korea-policy-is-all-smoke-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/19\/dont-believe-the-hype-chinas-north-korea-policy-is-all-smoke-and-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Believe the Hype: China\u2019s North Korea Policy is All Smoke and Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2017\/02\/dont-believe-the-hype-chinas-north-korea-policy-is-all-smoke-and-mirrors\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nk-monu.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Van Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and author of the book <em>Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Social media is abuzz with news that China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce announced it will suspend coal imports from North Korea as part of U.N. Security Council sanctions enforcement for the North\u2019s most recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests in violation of prior Security Council resolutions. So China is finally standing arm-in-arm with the United States and international community to actually do something about North Korea. That\u2019s great, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s suspension of coal imports is smoke and mirrors; an act of geopolitical misdirection. The United States is being played, as it has in the numerous past instances when China supported sanctions resolutions against North Korea at the United Nations only to fail to implement them&#8230;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.China\u2019s \u201cemotions\u201d toward North Korea don\u2019t drive its policy. China has a long tradition of paying lip service toward cooperation with the United States and the international community while largely failing to apply any meaningful pressure on North Korea, and for good reason: It doesn\u2019t want a nuclear-armed neighbor on its border to become a nuclear-armed enemy. We ignore China\u2019s enduring strategic interests in North Korea at our peril.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2017\/02\/dont-believe-the-hype-chinas-north-korea-policy-is-all-smoke-and-mirrors\/\">Don\u2019t Believe the Hype: China\u2019s North Korea Policy is All Smoke and Mirrors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Van Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and author of the book Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations: Social media is abuzz with news that China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce announced it will suspend coal imports from North Korea as part of U.N. 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To address this they must\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;China &amp; HK&quot;","block_context":{"text":"China &amp; HK","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/category\/countries-regions\/china-hk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22059,"url":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/17\/cold-war-2-0-confronting-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":14993,"position":4},"title":"Cold War 2.0: Confronting China","author":"Colin Twiggs","date":"October 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I was discussing Australia's current political tensions with China, with an old finance\/investment hand, Chris Evans, when he remarked on the coincidence that China had become far more aggressive in international politics at about the same time as the COVID-19 virus outbreak. My response: it is no coincidence. There are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Australia &amp; NZ&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Australia &amp; NZ","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/category\/countries-regions\/australia-nz-countries-regions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15694,"url":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/gold-as-trump-insurance\/","url_meta":{"origin":14993,"position":5},"title":"Gold as &#8216;Trump insurance&#8217;","author":"ColinTwiggs","date":"August 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday's solid blue candle on the gold chart [XAUUSD] confirms my view of the precious metal as a form of \"Trump insurance\". After Trump and North Korea exchanged threats suggesting nuclear retaliation, gold gained 1.32%, breaking resistance at $1275\/ounce. 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