Americaâs top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of North Korea, a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has told his Chinese counterparts that Washington wants Beijingâs help in handling the North Korean ânuclear programmeâ and denuclearising the Korean peninsula. He said the US would bolster its defence alliances with Japan and South Korea if China refrained from intervening.
Directing his remarks at China during a fireside chat at the Aspen Security Forum in the US state of Colorado, Blinken said: âWe believe that you have unique influence and we hope that youâll use it to get better cooperation from North Korea.
âBut if you canât or if you wonât, then weâre going to have to continue to take steps that arenât directed at China but that China probably wonât like because it goes to strengthening and shoring up not only our own defences but also those of South Korea and Japan and a deepening of the work that all three of us are doing together.â
Beijing has criticised Washingtonâs defence alliances in East Asia, viewing them as efforts to monitor or contain Chinaâs military. Seoul and Tokyo resent Pyongyangâs military tests, which sometimes take place near their airspace.
North Korea has conducted âone missile launch after anotherâ, Blinken said. On July 12, Pyongyang carried out a second flight test of its Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.
China, North Koreaâs Communist neighbour, has offered it fuel and food aid in the past and brokered international dialogue on the countryâs militarisation.
Blinkenâs comments followed the disappearance on Tuesday of Private Travis King, an American soldier who ran into North Korea during a civilian tour near the border with South Korea.
The secretary of state said he had no updates on Kingâs whereabouts but that âthere are certainly concernsâ he might be subjected to torture in North Korea.
The US is now working to anchor a declining Sino-American relationship, Blinken said on Friday. He, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and President Joe Bidenâs special climate envoy John Kerry have all visited China within the past two months.
âIt was important for us to put some stability back into this relationship, to put a floor under it, to make sure that the competition weâre clearly in does not veer into conflict, and that starts with engagement,â the diplomat said.
Blinken said China could help stem production of the illegal drug fentanyl that reaches the US through Mexico, control global climate change, and allow for the release of American detainees.
âIf we werenât engaged, we would be rightfully tagged with being irresponsible,â he said.
But challenges persist, and Blinken said on Friday the US had started a formal investigation into reports of Chinese hacking into US government emails.
can someone explain that community to me? Ive been there and I dont quite get the title- is it military memes? Is that it? halp im old
The military industrial complex is good and we support NATO.
And weâre sick of pretending itâs not đȘ
Yes, this headline is biased and it is from :
âSouth China morning Postâ which is part a voice of the Chinese government.
thats actually not true legally at least. that is a Hong Kong independedt newspaper
Used to be independent, but itâs owned by Alibaba now, so donât expect anything more than a pretense of independence anymore.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesnât work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
/c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works would give an instance agnostic link.
No, you should be seeing the link https://lemmy.world/c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works, which will open in your own instance, where you can subscribe and comment from your lemmy.world account.
Beijing has criticised Washingtonâs defence alliances in East Asia, viewing them as efforts to monitor or contain Chinaâs military.
Thatâs a criticism?
Iâm more curious about this stuff with US soldier Travis King. He ran into North Korea while visiting the border from South Korea? The US claims they are worried he is being tortured, but Iâd be more worried about what heâs voluntarily giving over to NK.
Heâs a low-ranking soldier right? Would he have much intel of value to tell NK about?
Oh god I hope not. I am sick of war. But the MIC needs its fucking wars so it can be profitable.
Really? US is essentially asking China to curb NK nuclear threats (which they essentially helped them to achieve that capability) or US will be forced to boost SK and Japan defenses.
The US will do that anyways. The MIC money printer must always brrrrrrrrr.
In this case US is saying: âHey China, do this, or we will be forced to sell more equipment for our allies for their defenses from NK and you.â
NK is not a nuclear threat unless someone decides to attack it. The biggest threat in the world is the US that starts a new war every few months because it canât ever NOT be at war.
After Libya you have to be completely bonkers if you think the anyone is going to believe the US means well when it asks people to give up their nukes.
After Libya you have to be completely bonkers if you think the anyone is going to believe the US means well when it asks people to give up their nukes.
Exactly the same thing could be said about Russia and Ukraine.
Letâs be more serious: the threat is not one flag or another, itâs the whole system of power that is rooted in corruption and greed. US wage more wars than others states because they sit on top of the pyramid, in their position any other nation would do the same because they are all built on the same rotten principles
It is the other way around. They can cause a damage especially to SK and Japan, but the nuclear weapons wonât help them once they do as they just have limited number of them.
This news is, because they like to fly their rockets over other countries.
NK is all bark and no bite. They are rational enough to know that actually using nuclear weapons would mean the end of their regime. The threaten to use for leverage, thatâs all
Yet they are not rational enough to fire rockets flying over Japan every other week. The thing with them is that until it explodes it is only a guess what the payload is. The thing that stops them from reacting is that they calculate trajectory and see that it goes into the sea. This is very risky, because a mistake could start a hot war, even if the payload werenât explosives.
They bite well enough when they have the chance. For example, the Lazarus Group, a North Korean hacking team, stole ~$600 million in a single cryptocurrency hesit. In total theyâve probably stolen over $2 billion, and thatâs no doubt continuing to grow.
Theyâve developed weapons-grade hacking technology that they readily employ, it wouldnât be a good idea for them to have weapons-grade nuclear technology.
Their threats are aimed at their own citizens. Itâs all political theater. Look at all the horrible things that the evil Americans want to do to our people, but through our strong military and nuclear threats we are able to hold them off and protect your lives! Itâs how the Kim Jong regime holds onto power. As long as theyâre protecting their citizens from us, their citizens are much less likely to overthrow their dictators. Putin uses a lot of the same tactics against his own people.
Donât worry, lads. When the US says âinterveneâ, they really meant to say âWe will add more restrictions/sanctions regarding trading stuff with our fellow broskis. Thatâll show em.â