By Jeff J. Brown
Pictured above: from Japanese television, a CCTV shot of Kim’s train in a Beijing station on the left. On the right is the honor guard and motorcade greeting him upon arrival. This is a really BIG deal (now confirmed – see postscript).
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Given the proposed summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump, this is momentous. Why? Because since both gaining their national leadership positions in 2012, Kim and Chinese President Xi Jinping have never met.
My conjecture is that Xi will propose to host the DPRK-USA summit in China. Outside of Russia, China is a safe place for Kim to travel and not worry about CIA-MI6-DGSE-BND assassins trying to poison him with plutonium, create an “unfortunate” accident, a mysterious heart attack, etc. They would do it without hesitation, if they could.
This is surely why speculation that the summit might take place in Sweden was scotched by DPRK, since Stockholm is a loyal whore for Western empire (https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/north-koreas-visit-to-sweden-could-be-first-step-in-trump-kim-meeting/), as Julian Assange’s illegal imprisonment shows (http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/13/assa-f13.html).
In any event, this is great news and will be a big push in the right direction for the Kim-Trump summit to be realized. The real rulers of the West, the deep state masters are foaming at the mouth about any possible détente on the Peninsula, risking billions of dollars of military hardware, missile and nuclear bomb sales, and not having 30,000 US soldiers camped 300km from communist China’s border.
Postscript: it’s official. It was Kim Jong-Un who came to Beijing. He wasn’t there to eat fried rice and dumplings. It will be interesting how it all shakes out in the next week or so, with the pending Kim-Trump summit in the works.
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Why and How China works: With a Mirror to Our Own History
JEFF J. BROWN, Senior Editor & China Correspondent, Dispatch from Beijing
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). He is also currently penning an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, to be published in late 2018. Jeff is a Senior Editor & China Correspondent for The Greanville Post, where he keeps a column, Dispatch from Beijing. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing Express. Jeff interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is also available on SoundCloud, YouTube, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
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One can hope that the proposal to integrate North Korea into the economies around it will come to pass and that US troops will be kicked out of South Korea.
Amen, Arius!
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Do you remember all the ridiculous news stories about the Kims- for example, “Kim Jong-Il claims to have invented the hamburger” or “North-Korean goverment promoting belief in unicorns”- from years past? If you have eyes to see, the Transatlantic conglomerates are only making fools of themselves and their audiences. Why are some Japanese so afraid of the Kims when they’ve got a big-arse American military presence within their territory? Of course, the fearmongering over the DPRK helps Washington to also keep an eye on China and Russia, in the hopes of increasing its control over Northeast Asia.