Media Report
- Fox News reports: "Despite suggesting a day earlier that China could "put a heavy move" on Pyongyang to "end this nonsense," the president on Wednesday highlighted trade between North Korea and China in suggesting the two countries are too close. 'Trade between China and North Korea grew almost 40 percent in the first quarter. So much for China working with us -- but we had to give it a try!' Trump tweeted. Trump had once seemed enthused about the prospect of working with China, a country he has been particularly hard on during his career as a politician – and when he was a private citizen. He even hinted months ago that Chinese President Xi Jinping could expect a more favorable trade deal in exchange for help engineering a peaceful resolution with dictator Kim Jong Un, whose rogue regime successfully tested an ICBM this week. But as North Korea has continued testing weapons, China has seemingly tested Trump's patience. Minutes before complaining about Beijing's trade with North Korea, Trump again hinted the crisis could impact a future Chinese trade deal. 'The United States made some of the worst trade deals in world history. Why should we continue these deals with countries that do not help us?' Trump wrote...Trump lashed out at China ahead of his second presidential trip abroad; he takes off for Poland on Wednesday with plans to meet with European allies in that country and in Germany."
- CBS News reports: "North Korean state television's most famous news anchor triumphantly announced what the country called an historic event after it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile -- and not shortly after the Chinese government urged restraint. A foreign ministry spokesperson said North Korea should stop violating Security Council resolutions but in an apparent reference to the United States said all 'relevant sides" should 'bring things back to the track of peaceful settlement via dialogue.' President Trump took a much different approach tweeting late Monday night: 'Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!' China feels it has already done enough to try and rein in its ally. It stopped buying coal from North Korea and has cut its oil and diesel exports to Kim Jong Un's regime. Tong Zhao is an expert on nuclear weapons policy in Asia who spoke with CBS News.
- Foreign Affairs comments: "Guo's claims seemed designed to sever China's most important political relationship before this fall's 19th Party Congress, where officials will determine Xi's longevity as president and select members for China's top decision-making bodies. Xi's power rests in part on Wang's anticorruption campaign, and any deterioration in the relationship between the two men–real or perceived–could embolden Xi's rivals or rattle his supporters, who may defect to his opponents. Guo has neither named a source nor provided conclusive evidence for his claims, and their validity is unclear. Nevertheless, the allegations have signaled the emergence of a new tool in Chinese politics: weaponized leaks. As the infighting within the Chinese Communist Party has intensified, Guo has shown, elites can undermine their rivals by implicating them in the widespread collusion between China's political and economic leaders. Xi himself has sought to oust his challengers by ensnaring them in corruption scandals. But Guo's actions show that by placing allegations in the media outside of China, those without direct access to the levers of power can now do the same, betting that their claims abroad will leap over the so-called Great Firewall, reenter China, and reshape the country's domestic politics. All of this raises questions about China's political stability. What will stop other insiders from making similarly explosive disclosures about party politics? At stake is not only the outcome of the coming Party Congress, but the future of China's opaque political system."
Calendar
- 2017-07-04 US confirms ICBM was tested by North Korea as Russia and China play peacekeepers
- 2017-07-03 China's Bond Market Is Attractive for the Wary
- 2017-07-02 South China Sea: US warship sails close to disputed island
- 2017-06-30 U.S. Imposes New Sanctions Over North Korea Ties
- 2017-06-30 U.S. Imposes New Sanctions Over North Korea Ties
- 2017-06-29 China Tells U.S. Senate to Keep Its Nose Out of Taiwan
- 2017-06-28 Soybean Diplomacy: New U.S. Ambassador to China Touts Agricultural Trade
- 2017-06-27 China And The U.S. Are Cooling Their Cooperation To Curb North Korea
- 2017-06-27 China And The U.S. Are Cooling Their Cooperation To Curb North Korea
- 2017-06-26 New U.S. ambassador to China says North Korea a top priority
News
- CBS News Chinese government urges restraing after N. Korea Missile Launch
- Fox News After North Korea missile test, Trump tweets: 'So much for China working with us'
- The Washington Post Tensions high in Himalayas as China demands India withdrawal
- Reuters Ahead of fractious G20, Germany and China pledge new cooperation
- CNN US, China divided over how to deal with new North Korean ICBM threat
- TIME Chinese Media Says India Needs to Be Taught a 'Bitter Lesson' Over Its Border Dispute
- New York Times Chinese Hospital Invited Cancer Experts to Help Treat Nobel Laureate
- The Washington Post China, Russia offer plan for easing North Korea Tensions
- CNBC china Caixin Services PMI Slowed in June, but Signals Continued Expansion
- Fortune Arrests Made as China's 'Straddling Bus' Project Looks More and More Like a Giant Scam
- CNBC China can sieze opportunity to lead global A.I. development, Baidu executives say
- CNN Spurned by Trump, China and Mexico talk about a trade deal
- The Independent Skeletons of 5,000-year-old Chinese 'giants' discovered by archaeologists
Commentary
- Foreign Affairs Leaks, Lies, and Chinese Politics
- Slate Today's Trump Twitter Feud is with China
- The National Interest How the U.S. Air Force Is Planning to Use the F-35 to Fight China's J-20 and Russia's PAK-FA
- CNN What will it take to stop North Korea
- The Wall Street Journal Saying Goodbye: A Last Supper From China Real Time
- CNN China won't bail out Trump on North Korea
- The National Interest North Korea's ICBM Test Isn't a Game Changer