Shortly
after the opinion-article on What would be Trump's biggest mistake, published by the blog,
Donald Trump tweeted a very alarming message that made China respond
quickly.
From
china.org
:
China
on Friday called on the United States to take the lead in cutting
nuclear weapons after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used Twitter
to propose the expansion of his country's nuclear capabilities.
"The
world's largest nuclear stockpile country should take the lead in
making substantial cuts to its nuclear arsenal so as to create
conditions for total elimination of nuclear weapons,"
foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Friday in response to
Trump's tweet.
Trump
tweeted Thursday that the United States must greatly strengthen and
expand its nuclear capabilities until such time as the world comes to
its senses regarding nukes.
Hua
said that the United States, as the country with the world's largest
nuclear stockpile, bears special and primary responsibilities in
nuclear disarmament. China always stands for and advocates complete
prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, she said.
Although
China's response could be considered quite mild, the fact that it
came very quickly, justifies to some extent what has been estimated
in blog's article, that “the Chinese continuously upgrade their
military forces, as well as, their nuclear arsenal, partly because of
the stupid neocon policy, adopted by Obama, that makes them feel
directly threatened and quite nervous.”
After
all, the Chinese could consider Trump's tweet as a warning against
North Korea and even take advantage of the situation. They could
calmly agree that nukes should be prohibited for non major powers
that could act irresponsibly, showing that the consideration of China
as a major power should not be disputed.
It
was also quite weird that, at the same time, Putin made some very
friendly statements concerning Trump.
As
also mentioned in blog's article, “What would be the 'right
approach' for the neocons who are running out of time in this brutal
race? It would be, probably, to focus primarily on China, which is
indeed the biggest economic threat, but doesn't have the military
power (like Russia) to confront the US. [...] it seems that Donald is
following such an approach! He appears to be conciliatory concerning
Putin, but continuously provokes the Chinese! Everything shows that
Trump is determined to continue the Obama 'Pivot to Asia' anti-China
legacy, but this would be also his biggest mistake.”
But,
again, Putin is not naive to drop China for the sake of Donald.
Especially when he sees NATO military forces concentrating next to
Russian borders and the Western sanctions still active.
"Good noW!" B"H
ReplyDeleteWe need to get on (top of our responsibilities) not off! do "Good noW!"@, 5777.
Could the people* oust Obama right now!
DeleteWhat if another, more long-term game is being played? Trump says all sorts of stuff, much of it contradictory. He has indicated various appointments, which have a lot of people panicking.
ReplyDeleteBut we tend to forget that as yet Trump hasn't actually appointed anybody to anything yet. He can't until he is actually sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. Neither can he actually start instituting any policies until that time, the afternoon of January 20th.
Trump also has to be aware that whatever it is he does, or whomever he appoints will receive tough opposition from one quarter or another. It seems to me that the recommended strategy for the Donald to reduce the opportunities for those opposed to him to organize themselves against his aims, would be to name a lot of controversial names, outline a number of contradictory policies, keeping everyone off balance, and wondering and speculating on what he will really do.
Then, after January 20th, we may find him appointing entirely different people than those names we have heard suggested so far. Ideas like the nuclear expansion or moving the US embassy to Jerusalem might just end up being waved off by Trump as at this point he goes with some different people and in a different direction.
This all sounds like good red meat to throw to the neo-cons, somewhat muting their attacks on him, until AFTER he is in office and many of the neo-cons are out.
Antoinetta III
***Absolutely Antoinetta!!! Absolutely Right On!! Da!
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