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President Trump persuaded China to freeze all financial transactions with North Korea and ordered a new round of U.S. sanctions Thursday, closing out his first U.N. General Assembly with a major diplomatic victory in his efforts to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and missile programs short of war.
In a carefully choreographed strategy deployed from the shadow of the United Nations headquarters in New York, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin called the head of China’s central bank very early Thursday to alert him that Mr. Trump was preparing an executive order to sanction any financial institutions doing business with North Korea. He asked for the cooperation of China, the main source of North Korea’s cash.
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Trump has cleverly boxed the Chicoms in a corner. They have no way out but to cooperate or crash financially. They thought they would be dealing with another idiot like Obozo but they were badly mistaken.
They’re already bleating on the news that nuh uhh, China is so not doing what Trump says, followed by much mincing and parsing of words.
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We’ll see…
I love my President and Weapon.
I don’t know why China would risk losing billions of $ in trade and business for 1 man.
China’s leadership isn’t composed some stereotypical coolie type we’ve seen in the movies. They realize that “lil kim” is a crazier than a shithouse rat or Maxine Waters. But I digress. China wants NOKO as a buffer zone but is beginning to realize that kim is a liability that is going to have to be dealt with. The 64 million dollar question is How.
Kim is China’s canary in the coal mine.
They’re not gonna worry until the beak hits the bottom of the bird cage.
It’s a simple equation, if you do business with N Korea the USA will not do business with you, pick one. MAGA
It is my gut feeling that Rocket Man will be “stricken” by a condition that will prove to be instantly fatal. At the same time, all of his dancing and clapping generals will become MIA and DOA. It will be explained as a horrible accident caused by economic sanctions.
China has no illusions about where the U.S. stands on trade and what it has to do about NoKo. Trump was right again on just how easy this was going to be.
The Chinese are such liars they will try to figure a way around this ASAP.
Changing financial “rules” to reward “our” friends and punish “our” enemies? While licking the UN’s taint? How’s that “Anyone but Hillary!” working out?