<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en”><p>China Tries to Keep Couples From Sending Fetal Blood Abroad (for sex testing) <a href=”http://t.co/xzPhX9cSTY”>http://t.co/xzPhX9cSTY</a></p>— JamesTurnbull (@JamesTurnbull) <a href=”https://twitter.com/JamesTurnbull/status/558572369124786176″>January 23, 2015</a></blockquote>
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If Beijing decided to pull a Putin on its neighbors, would the United States have any real options besides war? http://t.co/VHr2DTMbKY
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) January 10, 2015
This is a nice gesture by the Park administration which hopefully the Chinese government appreciates:
South Korea plans to return some 60 sets of remains of Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War to their homeland, a defense ministry official here said Monday.
In a symbolic gesture of friendship toward its former battlefield foe, South Korea pledged to repatriate the bodies to China by March during the Seoul-Beijing security talks held in Seoul earlier in the day, according to the official.
“After the repatriation last year, we’ve unearthed some 60 more bodies of the Chinese servicemembers. After taking some necessary steps, we will send them back to their home by March,” the official said, asking not to be named. “The Chinese side expressed gratitude for the decision.”
In March last year, the South Korean government returned the bodies of 437 Chinese soldiers killed on Korean soil during the war on humanitarian grounds, after President Park Geun-hye made such an offer during a 2013 summit with her Chinese counterpart. [Yonhap]
China halts racy Empress drama due to 'technical difficulties' http://t.co/5VCltZo3C3 pic.twitter.com/pkSFGetHK0
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 29, 2014
China wary over S. Korea-US-Japan pact on N.K. intel http://t.co/7RQ3LdlKj6 via @GlobalPost
— NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) December 27, 2014
Husband embraced dear wife for the last time and refused to let go http://t.co/s9Di9YH7H9 pic.twitter.com/HIiEC0Fi2M
— DramaFever (@dramafever) December 27, 2014
China needs to deal with its own racism, not just schadenfreude over Ferguson.
http://t.co/HXgbbX4rji pic.twitter.com/4D5jBKXf4G
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) December 14, 2014
China’s Xi Is a More Effective Leader Than Obama http://t.co/XE41K61ulB
— The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) December 11, 2014
Inside China's new CCTV headquarters – known as the underpants building – it's ALL forbidden pic.twitter.com/A0PURyZR1X
— David Schlesinger (@daschles) December 3, 2014
Reading between the lines here this Chinese General appears to be signaling to the North Koreans that they will not save the Kim regime if they do something foolish like start a war. However, I see nothing in here that says they will not get involved to stabilize a post-Kim regime North Korea after they do something foolish:
China would not help save North Korea even if the neighboring North’s regime collapses, a former general of China’s military said Tuesday, in rare explicit comments that possibly reflect Beijing’s growing frustration with its unpredictable ally.
“China is not a savior,” Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing military region of the People’s Liberation Army, wrote in an op-ed published by the Global Times newspaper, which has close ties with China’s ruling Communist Party.
“If North Korea really collapses, even China can’t save it,” Wang said.
The comments by Wang were in response to a recent contribution by another Chinese expert, who urged Beijing not to “abandon” North Korea. [Yonhap]
Here is more of what Wang had to say from the South China Morning Post:
Wang said China would not get involved in any new war on the Korean peninsula.
“China cannot influence the situation on the Korean peninsula … China has no need to light a fire and get burnt. Whoever provokes a conflagration bears responsibility,” he wrote. “Now there is no more ’socialist camp’. It is not necessary for China’s younger generation to fight a war for another country.”
Wang criticised the North for its nuclear development, using it as an example of how the country’s interests can differ from China’s and saying it had “already brought about the serious threat of nuclear contamination in China’s border area”.
But he also slammed Western countries for “demonising” North Korea and interfering in its internal affairs in the name of human rights. “China absolutely does not meddle,” he wrote.
Beijing will “support what should be supported and oppose what should be opposed” regarding the North, Wang said, indicating that China was not ready to completely give up on its troublesome neighbour.
China will neither “court” nor “abandon” North Korea, he wrote. “This should be China’s basic attitude.” [South China Morning Post]
You can read more at the link.
