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A Role for China in Solving North Korean Threats

China, the primary patron of North Korea, can be arm-
twisted and embarrassed into taking steps regarding the
Hermit Kingdom. While harangues, pleas, and diplomatic
overtures to do so have been regularly ignored by the CCP
measures that implicate China’s pocketbook, that threaten
a loss of face, that have military dimensions—these are
the sorts of approaches that have prevailed. For example,
tariffs, sanctions, and public denunciations of human rights
violations and other misdemeanors have yielded fruit.

China holds more U.S. debt than any other foreign country,
steals more U.S. technology, depends on the U.S. as its biggest
export market, and still lags behind the U.S. militarily, although
it has made many strides in closing the gap.

For example, President Trump treated Chairman Xi to a
front row seat during their first state dinner to watch cruise
missiles crash into a Syrian airport in response to Syria’s use
of chemical weapons. Tariffs were used to bring large sums
of money into the U.S. Treasury. Trade matters were robustly
negotiated, with an array of concessions by the CCP.

Also, Secretary Pompeo made the mass atrocity
determinations against the CCP for genocide and crimes
against humanity in Xinjiang Province against Uyghurs
and other Turkic minorities. He closed the espionage ring
posing as the Chinese Consulate in Houston. Indeed, he led
some 40 lines of effort against the CCP inside the U.S. State

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