China should have did something with N. Korea. If anything is going to spill out in China it will most likely come from N. Korea.
We need to remove peace keeping troops from the Middle East and send them to central America and fix the nightmare the people have created there. Of course it won't do any good unless the wonderful people there grow a pair and fight with us instead expecting us to do it for them.
China was doing something about North Korea. So was Russia:
- On 30 March 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a
decree implementing intensified United Nations Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang's nuclear programs.
- In December 2013 Russia joined the sanctions against North Korea, introduced in March by the
UN Security Council (
Resolution 2087).
-In December 2016,
Resolution 2321, passed and capped North Korea's coal exports and banned exports of copper, nickel, zinc, and silver. In February 2017, a UN panel said that 116 of 193 member states had not yet submitted a report on their implementation of these sanctions, though China had.
- In February 2017, China banned all imports of coal from North Korea for the rest of that year. China also banned exports of some petroleum products and imports of textiles from North Korea in line with United Nations resolutions. This certainly played its part in North Korea's lashing out for the year. In April 2017, North Korea began what would be a total of seventeen launches while Trump instigated and played Twitter games with Kim.
- In October 2017 Vladimir Putin signed Presidential decree No. 484 "
On measures to implement UN Security Council resolution 2321 of November 30, 2016" imposing sanctions on North Korea in connection with the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2321 of 30 November 2016.
THEN.......
*** In January 2018, Trump's trade war crusade against China and constant denigration began.
*** In June 2019,
both China and Russia blocked UN efforts to declare that North Korea was violating oil caps.
*** In December 2019, China and Russia proposed the U.N. Security Council lift a ban on North Korea exporting statues, seafood and textiles, in a move Russia said is aimed at encouraging talks between Washington and Pyongyang.
*** By late 2020,
China was being accused of helping North Korea evade UN sanctions.
Seems odd for Russia and China to "encourage" successful talks when our Allies stuck with us and held to the sanctions. Some might easily argue that Trump's trade-war crusade, starting in January 2018, and constant denigration of China, wrecked their support against North Korea, which is absolutely needed. Then came his constant beratement over COVID as a scapegoat for his own poor leadership. And with China shoving it in Trump's face, Russia saw opportunity to push its own agenda to antagonize and thwart American efforts in the world. And Russia, having much of its foreign policy pandered to, pushed their other policy of helping China usurp America and the West on the world stage.
This is the crap I mean when I say that Trump worked against America's interests. At one point, we had Iran locked down, and China/Russia working with us against North Korea. Then came the orange idiot to play reality TV with the White House. Now where are we? Iran has an open door to a nuke. Iran was pushed closer to China's orbit, which now has direct access into the greater Middle East for oil and an extension of their new Silk Road. Iran, China, and Russia have unobstructed geoeconomic and political influence straight to Israel's border and to the Mediterranean Sea. Every single Cold War President would roll over in their graves if they knew what a mess this douche made of things in such a short period of time.