Trump Warns China He Is Willing to Pressure North Korea on His Own

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump, frustrated by China’s unwillingness to lean on North Korea, has told the Chinese leader that the United States is prepared to act on its own in pressuring the nuclear-armed government in Pyongyang, according to senior administration officials.

Mr. Trump’s warning, delivered in a cordial but blunt phone call on Sunday night to President Xi Jinping, came after a flurry of actions by the United States — selling weapons to Taiwan, threatening trade sanctions and branding China for human trafficking — that rankled the Chinese and left little doubt that the honeymoon between the two leaders was over.

After returning from his weekend getaway in Bedminster, N.J., late Monday, Mr. Trump noted on Twitter that North Korea had launched another ballistic missile, which landed in the sea between North Korea and Japan. He suggested it was time for China to act.

“Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!” Mr. Trump wrote.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/world/asia/trump-xi-jinping-china-north-korea.html?_r=0

[TeamPooka]

1. I do not support Trump acting against NK. nt

[riversedge]

2. Dangerous to say the least.!!

[Initech]

3. This will not end well.

[flibbitygiblets]

4. What does he consider a "heavy move"? Grab NK by the Pyongyang?

Can amateur hour please end now?

[Achilleaze]

5. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is desperate

for something to divert attention from his treason in league with the freaking KGOP.

[spiderpig]

6. Feeling his oats, is he?

I lament for our future and that of our pets.

[Maxheader]

7. Xi is no fool.

But a real fool is pressing hard on
his patience. China and N. Korea
hold all the cards...mainly geographically.
The debt from the iraq war would
look like a piker compared to fighting
a war with those countries. do we
even have close bases that would accept
our military?

[Scarsdale]

8. Then the Orange Blob turned

to "smart kid" Jared and said "Tell them what I will do" (Then tell me) Maybe he will close all Ivanka's rip off factories? Put people out of work, making peanuts for wages?

[DK504]

9. Have the Joint Chiefs talked about his insanity?

Have they told their subordinates to stand down if he starts any aggression toward another country, any country? This is becoming a constitutional crisis and a international crisis of which we have never seen before. All leaders of the world are now in a position in which they mush come out and condemn this man and let him know how things are done in government.

China, Germany, France, England, all allied countries should be gathering at the G20 to discuss sanctions against America until this psychotic pretending to be a leader. We are in deep shit and it's getting worse.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. This ought to go well

when the stupid lead we will glow in the dark

[Javaman]

11. oh that will work...