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BY ERICK SAN JUAN
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
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MOBILIZATION of military hardware and the preparation of soldiers are signs of an impending war and in the words of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, “If war breaks out, the consequences would be unimaginable.”
The reason for the ringing of alarm bells is that major players are on a war game and the world is nervously waiting on who will hit the button and implement the “first strike policy” or will do a preemptive strike on the stubborn leader of North Korea.
The “extraordinary” mobilization of a bomber aircraft was reportedly acknowledged by China’’s foreign ministry, giving no further details.
The general assumption is that China is taking a defensive position in case the US administration of President Donald Trump follows through its repeated threats of carrying out preemptive strikes on North Korea’s nuclear facilities.
Traditionally, an ally of the communist government in Pyongyang, Beijing is widely assumed to be protecting its junior partner by flexing a deterrence force against the US. China has openly urged the US not to take unilateral military action against North Korea over the latter’s controversial nuclear program.
Beijing has been calling for a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, a crisis which seems to be intensifying following a dire warning from US Vice President Mike Pence that the “sword is ready.” This was met with reciprocal threats from North Korea to “reduce the US to ashes.”
Despite calls for diplomacy from China, it is also clear that Beijing is becoming exasperated with North Korea, known formally as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. China is perplexed by what it sees as the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Un forming an “epicenter of instability” on its borders.
Earlier this month, there was even an editorial carried by Chinese state-run media warning that China might be forced to launch its own military strikes on North Korea if it comes down to the “bottom line” of preserving stability and security in the region. (Source: Finian Cunningham, Would China Strike North Korea?)
So is it going to be China against North Korea or China versus the US? Just asking.
And the tension among the key players in this war game intensified in the exchange of words at the United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting. China always wanted to resolve the NoKor nuclear missile production and testing through dialogue, thus stopping the US and South Korea military exercises near the Korean Peninsula to ease the tension further. The use of force is not necessary when they can solve the matter through dialogue.
As reported by Reuters, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was dismayed by Wang Yi’s tough words and said: “We will not negotiate our way back to the negotiating table with North Korea, we will not reward their violations of past resolutions, we will not reward their bad behavior with talks.”
Wang Yi, however, received strong support from his Russian ally, with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov reported by Reuters to have addressed the UN Security Council as follows: “Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov cautioned on Friday that the use of force would be completely unacceptable.”
“The combative rhetoric coupled with reckless muscle-flexing has led to a situation where the whole world seriously is now wondering whether there’s going to be a war or not,” he told the council. “One ill-thought or misinterpreted step could lead to the most frightening and lamentable consequences.”
Gatilov said North Korea felt threatened by regular joint US and South Korean military exercises and the deployment of a US aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula.
Both China and Russia also repeated their opposition to the deployment of a US anti-missile system in South Korea. Gatilov described it as a “destabilizing effort” while Wang said it damaged trust among the parties on the North Korea issue.
These arguments between Tillerson, Wang Yi and Gatilov in the UN Security Council, and the toughly worded commentary in the People’s Daily, illustrate the folly of the confrontational course the Trump administration has followed towards North Korea over the last few weeks.
Instead of isolating North Korea from China, and getting China to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea, China – exactly as I predicted – is blaming the US as much as North Korea for creating the crisis, and is not only resisting US demands for further sanctions, but is actually increasing its support for North Korea.” (Source: Alexander Mercouris Editor-in-Chief at The Duran newsletter online)
Although there was an analysis in the past that the next global war will start in the Korean Peninsula, aggravated by alliances of the major world powers, methinks that as long as cooler heads treat the situation with utmost diplomacy and reason, humanity can still enjoy a peaceful world… for the meantime.
But many in the know are worried about the global military industrial complex top secret agenda of the war cycle. I was told that “if the program is on, sometimes you can delay it but nobody can stop it.”/PN
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