Doug Bandow
Security, Asia
While Beijing does not want a nuclear Pyongyang, it wants collapse and chaos even less.
In barely two weeks Americans will learn whether Donald Trump is as smart as he claims. He triumphed over the odds to win the presidency and most of his staff picks so far look serious. But his tweets continue to raise some interesting questions.
The president-elect’s recent Twitter strike was on China and North Korea. He seems to view the former about as negatively as neoconservatives view Russia, which Trump apparently admires. At least one can blame Vladimir Putin for interfering in other nations, …read more
Source: The National Interest