04-22-2018, 09:40 AM
(04-21-2018, 10:58 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: At least we didn't have to make any concessions to get the lack of concession this time.
We'll see what happens. To me the most hopeful sign is the strong implication by Chinese sources that North Korea will denuclearize. I doubt they're quite as easy to fool as the western press.
Chinese media are close to the political leadership -- or else. The Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China both agree on the desirability of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Don't fool yourself: even if the People's Republic of China is a nuclear power, it has much the same dread of a third-rate military power under capricious or evil leadership getting a nuke as did the Soviet Union -- explaining why the Soviet Union could turn so quickly on Saddam Hussein once he invaded Kuwait.
The message from China is surely 'Get rid of that nuclear program or else!'
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
