Trump Calls On China to Fix the North Korea Problem
If he some how gets elected it will be interesting to see if Trump is able to back up his big talk because getting China to do something on North Korea is not as easy as he makes it sound:
Calling North Korea a “disgrace,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday that China should solve the problem as Pyongyang’s main benefactor or be forced to see its trade with the United States suffer.
It was the latest in a series of remarks that Trump has been making since the North’s nuclear test last week to underscore his point that China has “total control” over Pyongyang, and the U.S. should force Beijing to fix the problem of the North.
“I think North Korea is a disgrace,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I would get China, and I would say, ‘Get in there and straighten it out. You’d better straighten it out.’ And, if you don’t straighten it out, we’re going to have trouble because we have power over China. We have trade power over China.”
Trump also said that while Iran is expected to have nuclear weapons due to what he calls a “stupid agreement” that the U.S. and other world powers concluded with Tehran last year, North Korea already has “very dangerous weapons of some sort.”
In another FOX TV interview, Trump again said that China is the one that should fix the North Korea problem.
“People ask me a number of questions. They were asking me how do you solve North Korea? Well, China should be solving North Korea; they have total power,” Trump said. [Yonhap]
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Like all elected politicians, there is no way he’ll back up his campaign promises.
The difference that makes Trump potentially viable (although he’s not my 1st or 2nd choice) is his public bluster (ensuring popular support) and his success in closed-to-the-press boardroom negotiations (where he needs to act wisely and much more reasonably). He has external marketing skills and in spite of his “You’re Fired!” image, he gets how to motivate unions and executives off-camera.
That means Trump might easily compromise on something I care about in order to get some other objective accomplished. Bumper-sticker/sound-bite thinking is a gross oversimplification of the complexities of running the USA. I’m pretty sure that’s how the Left will react to everything except Iranian advisers in the Obama White House and Hillary’s staff, 4 dead Americans in Benghazi, and Top Secret material in Hillary’s unsecured email server and emails from people unauthorized to have it (with no prosecutions for any of these).