While the newly elected South Korean president is eager to thaw relations with Beijing, and convince them to lift informal economic sanctions, he is attempting the difficult task of getting off on the right foot with Trump at the same time.
In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, despite recent indications that he was drifting toward Beijing’s approach to North Korea, Kim sounded more like Trump than anybody else.
“I believe China is making efforts to stop North Korea from making additional provocations, yet there are no tangible results as of yet,” echoing Trump’s recent tweet that China’s help with North Korea “has not worked out.” Moon specifically added “I can sympathize with [President Trump’s] message.
No Sputh Koreans are exactly jumping over the moon over the perfectly sensible and less dangerous solution of less provocations and no regime change of an unstable neighbour.
It is like adding hot air to a growing bubble that is about to burst.
Instead of Macron, most trumpeters think that the French should be wean from its big bad, very bad German neighbour.
As RMB is not convertible, the gambit of mass overseas spending spree by the unfettered tycoons will actually cause a global banking meltdown.
Actually less talks and more actions are required to solve the manifold socioeconomic and geopolitical problems,
When surpassing the Japs, it is bound to cause the Japs to feel more unease of sleeping next to its enemy.
It is good for the World harmony if the Chinese only buy what they need to consume and not to build over capacity that feeds into its export machine.
Judging from his erratic behaviour, I think that the dude had received a very bad Swiss education.
Both the nativist Trumpeter and globalised Tech geeks need the global market place to grow and make fatter wallets for themselves.
While the EU may fear Brexit, the actual ordinary Brits are living through its nightmare scenario of falling pound that buy less of everything the European produce.
European markets hate no price movement of Oil.
The first issue that President Moon must discuss with the USA is the immediate removal of all American soldiers out of Korea. The presence of American soldiers in Korea is the sole reason for Kim Jong-Um to develop nuclear and ICBM capabilities. Furthermore, the presence of American soldiers in Korea prevent the reunification of the Koreans.