China Refuses To Pick Sides

May 26, 2010 by James

Apparently when push comes to shove; China run’s away. The recent news and escalation of tensions between North/South Korea and China as well as the international findings and blaming of North Korea for sinking a warship have caused China to look like a joke. China in recent weeks has called the international report “inconclusive”, a report backed by South Korea, Britain, France, Australia and the United States. China has been asked to call for North Korea’s apology to the South as well as to support further economic sanctions. China’s response, “we would like all relevant party’s to remain calm”. China; North Korea’s distant ally and South Korea’s dominant trading partner refuses to take a stance both politically and militarily. The international group of experts presented to the world a North Korean torpedo as well as other evidence yet China calls this “inconclusive”. North Korea has no economy, no trade, and is heavily sanctioned all ready by the world; yet China is worried about looking bad to North Korea. Why? North Korea has no power globally, and their regional power is heavily limited by the presence of the 28,000 U.S. troops. China is hoping to sit this round out and wait for things to cool over.

It’s certainly not fair to South Korea, whom was attacked by a nation it is still technically at war with. South Korea certainly has the right to demand sanctions, and its China’s job as a super power to fall on the side of the world, not cold war ties. My guess is, with the U.S. and South Koreans doing joint military exercises both land, sea and air is that it will further escalate beyond China’s control and they will be forced to pick a side. If they stuck with their old way’s and sided with the North escalation’s would be minimal because no one wants to go to war with China. If they sided with the South and the World, the North would not be able to get away with any more deviant acts, and the South would have a sure shot at destroying the North; not by military might, but by further economic meltdown.

Personally we should have ended this crap in 1953 and both overran North Korea and pushed China back. We can put all of these recent tensions on China as if they had not intervened in 1952-53 it would just be Korea and I’m sure that would have worked out a lot better.