NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS!
By Jeff J. Brown
Pictured above: Kim Il Sung, left, and Zhou Enlai, right, were all smiles, having just signed their mutual defense treaty on July 11th, 1961 in Beijing. Does President Trump know about this incredibly important agreement? Look who’s right behind Zhou: Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi. A lot of history in this photo. (Image by Baidu)
Thousands of dollars are needed every year to pay for expensive anti-hacking systems, controls and monitoring. This website has to defend itself from tens of expert hack attacks every day! It’s never ending. So, please help keep the truth from being censored and contribute to the cause.
PayPal to je**@br***********.com. Bank cards can also be used through the PayPal portal. Thank you.
Do your friends, family and colleagues a favor to make sure they are Sino-smart:
Journalism: https://chinarising.puntopress.com/blog-2/
Books: http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/05/19/the-china-trilogy/ and
https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/06/18/praise-for-the-china-trilogy-the-votes-are-in-it-r-o-c-k-s-what-are-you-waiting-for/
Website: www.chinarising.puntopress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/44_Days
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/44DaysPublishing
VK: https://vk.com/chinarisingradiosinoland
Mobile phone app: http://apps.monk.ee/tyrion
About me: https://chinarising.puntopress.com/about-the-author/
Sixteen years with the people on the streets of China, Jeff
Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), YouTube video, as well as being syndicated on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, RUvid and Ivoox (links below),
In 1961, John F. Kennedy was starting to ramp up America’s presence in Vietnam. This, after standing up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff by refusing to authorize the CIA’s Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco to received air force support, starting on April 17, 1961. To paraphrase Donald Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence, it was time for JFK to show his “strength and resolve”, in the endless war against communism.
VP Pence was in South Korea this week, to pound on America’s King Kong chest. He snarled that Trump had already proved his mettle in Afghanistan (the MOAB bomb) and Syria (the bogus missile attack on an empty government air base), and is now threatening the North not to test the strength of the armed forces of the United States.
In May, 1961, Kennedy’s VP Lyndon B. Johnson, dutifully flew to Saigon. Sound familiar? He met with America’s fascist, puppet South Vietnamese dictator, President Diem, who was despised by almost every citizen under his brutal control. With a straight face, LBJ announced to the world that this butcher was the Winston Churchill of Asia. Given Churchill’s racist and genocidal policies in every British colony across the planet, the comparison was much closer to the truth than admitted by the obedient Western press.
JFK, playing his part, sent 400 Green Beret special forces to Vietnam, to train the South Vietnamese in anti-communist counter-insurgency. Time to wipe those evil Vietcong guerrillas off the face of the map. We know how that turned out. About a well as the Korean War, where in both imperial invasions, three million local “gooks” were slaughtered like rats, under an endless sky of carpet bombing. Served those dirty commies right. They had it coming, I tell ‘ya. Just ask John Wayne.
Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung, China’s and North Korea’s leaders, respectively, knew exactly what this meant. In spite of giving Uncle Sam a humiliating beating during the Korean War, it was clear that the world’s self-appointed Robocop had not learned his lesson, and was going back for Southern seconds. Thus, there was the real possibility imperial America could come back to the Korean peninsula for an encore ass kicking.
Thus, on July 11th, 1961, China’s Premier Zhou Enlai and North Korea’s Kim Il Sung signed their “Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Between the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/china_dprk.htm
It renews automatically every twenty years, unless cancelled by either party. Thus, it renewed in 1981 and is in full effect until 2021. Trump would have to wait and get reelected into his second term, crossing his fingers that either China or the DPRK called it quits. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were Trump http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/03/10/china-north-korea-and-the-upcoming-international-sanctions-china-rising-radio-sinoland-16-3-10/.
For Trump and his gang of merry warrior pranksters, Article II is worth repeating:
Article II
The Contracting Parties undertake jointly to adopt all measures to prevent aggression against either of the Contracting Parties by any state. In the event of one of the Contracting Parties being subjected to the armed attack by any state or several states jointly and thus being involved in a state of war, the other Contracting Party shall immediately render military and other assistance by all means at its disposal.
Simply put, if the US or any other country attacks the North, China is obligated to defend it. That means war by any other name. Some Western pundits claim that China does not have to do this, due to Article I:
Article I
The Contracting Parties will continue to make every effort to safeguard the peace of Asia and the world and the security of all peoples.
Suggesting that this gives China wiggle room, since the North’s nuclear missile program does not safeguard peace in Asia. I would suggest just the opposite and Baba Beijing agrees with me. The DPRK’s nuclear threat is all that is keeping the tyrannical West from trying to turn the North into another Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria or Yemen. I’ll stop there, because the list is long. As explained, http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/03/10/china-north-korea-and-the-upcoming-international-sanctions-china-rising-radio-sinoland-16-3-10/, China is going to make sure its baby communist brother-in-arms is seen no harm, although that does not discount a possible media friendly, Syrian-like false flag missile attack, for China to help make Trump look like he is showing his imperial “strength and resolve” http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/04/13/is-trump-threatening-to-attack-north-korea-or-is-it-a-sino-us-nk-menage-a-trois-dance-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170413/ and
On November 1st, 1950, over one million volunteer Chinese began pouring over the North Korean border and dealt a devastating defeat to the United States, although, like Vietnam, losing is furiously denied and censored in the West. A fake “heroic, presidential” missile attack on an already vacated air base aside, like in Syria two weeks ago, Trump, his deranged generals and corporate owned Congressmen had better take a sobering look at history and remember what really happened in 1950 and 1961. Simply put, China and North Korea are not Grenada and Panama.
After the humiliating ass-whippings that China, Russia, North Korea and North Vietnam meted out to Uncle Sam, you’d think that Donald Trump & Co. would know better than to come back for thirds. Imperial hubris knows no bounds for denial or historical revisionism. (Image by SCMP)
Why and How China works: With a Mirror to Our Own History
JEFF J. BROWN, Editor, China Rising, and Senior Editor & China Correspondent, Dispatch from Beijing, The Greanville Post
Jeff J. Brown is a geopolitical analyst, journalist, lecturer and the author of The China Trilogy. It consists of 44 Days Backpacking in China – The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass (2013); Punto Press released China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (2016); and for Badak Merah, Jeff authored China Is Communist, Dammit! – Dawn of the Red Dynasty (2017). As well, he published a textbook, Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). Jeff is a Senior Editor & China Correspondent for The Greanville Post, where he keeps a column, Dispatch from Beijing and is a Global Opinion Leader at 21st Century. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing Express. Jeff writes, interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is also available on YouTube, Stitcher Radio, iTunes, Ivoox and RUvid. Guests have included Ramsey Clark, James Bradley, Moti Nissani, Godfree Roberts, Hiroyuki Hamada, The Saker and many others. [/su_spoiler]
Jeff can be reached at China Rising, je**@br***********.com, Facebook, Twitter, Wechat (Jeff_Brown-44_Days) and Whatsapp: +86-13823544196.
Read it in your language • Lealo en su idioma • Lisez-le dans votre langue • Lies es in deniner Sprache • Прочитайте это на вашем языке • 用你的语言阅读
[google-translator]
Wechat group: search the phone number +8613823544196 or my ID, Jeff_Brown-44_Days, friend request and ask Jeff to join the China Rising Radio Sinoland Wechat group. He will add you as a member, so you can join in the ongoing discussion.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
I contribute to 
Excellent information Jeff! I never knew about this treaty, I wonder if Beijing intends to honor it. Unfortunately, it seems the USA is going to push the issue..
Thanks for reading, Peter. Part of the problem is that Baba Beijing does not flaunt the treaty, the way Eurangloland does. It’s almost never mentioned in the local or international media in China. Please share widely.
I would think that IF it’s as easy as Article 1 can seamlessly solve the issue for China, United Slavery ASSociation (USA), will not KEEP PUSHING NoKo for war coz USA is VERY AWARE of this occluded treaty. That’s why if they can drag NoKo to war, China HAS TO be involved. USA’s real target is China. NoKO is just smokescreen.
Even with a 130,000ppm smoke density, we can see through USA’s BullShit brand of smokescreen !! FAILED!!