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[QUOTE]Originally posted by NaturalResources: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Machiavelli: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by NaturalResources: [qb]External food aid now comes primarily from China and South Korea in the form of grants and long-term concessional loans. In May 2008, the US agreed to give 500,000 metric tons of food to North Korea via the World Food Program and US nongovernmental organizations; Pyongyang began receiving these shipments in mid-2008.[/qb][/QUOTE]This article is about 2 years old but I think it's still true: "Outside aid has all but ceased because foreign donors — [b]even the regime’s ally China[/b] — have used food shortages to put pressure on its leadership." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1466568.ece I can assume SK and the U.S. are not giving them food aid currently. [QUOTE][qb]Perhaps... But, if they need us and we need them, where is the leverage?[/qb][/QUOTE]Money. China wants our money whether from collecting the money they lent us or from selling us their products. We are their #1 customer and i doubt NK even comes close to being so. [/qb][/QUOTE]Ok, so I think I can see the point you and Glass are trying to make. The US and China are in a love-hate relationship and it is in both of our mutual interests to cooperate economically. We need them and they need us, neither can walk away, so in a sense it creates a type of type of "dependant" based relationship that could be used for leverage on the NK issue. However, IMO that is based on the assumption that the Chinese leadership values economic relationships with the US over Military and Strategic relationships with NK. Geopolitically, NK provides a very important "buffer-zone" between Communist China and Western Forces in SK and Japan. SK is essentially an "American Foothold" on the Asian continent and right at China's doorstep. IMO it seems foolish to assume that the Chinese leadership would abandon NK in such a way that it created a situation where US/Western forces and Chinese forces shared a common border. Also, the Chinese economy does not operate in a vacume and with a few strategic economic deals with Europe, Russia and India, IMO it would be a lot easier for China to walk away from the US economically, than for the US to walk away from China, assuming it were to ever come to that point. (I agree, we don't have the cahones.) JMO anyway, NR. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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