The increasingly tense stand-off between the U.S. and North Korea may have hit a new high this week.
As U.S. and South Korean military units conducted an annual air power exercise over the Korean Peninsula, China’s air force reportedly staged exercises in “routes and areas it has never flown before” over the Yellow and East Seas. The exercise involved reconnaissance planes, fighter jets, an early warning and control aircraft, and a joint operation with surface-to-air missile units.
The South China Morning Post quotes Li Jie, a Beijing-based military expert, as saying the drills were done specifically to send a message to Donald Trump.
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WNU Editor: Is China stupid enough to support North Korea in the event of war is a question that none of my Chinese friends and contacts want to answer. This is actually quite a change from 30 years ago when all of them told me that they would. But that was then .... today ..... to support North Korea!?!?!? A wretched country ruled by a family dynasty with its own warped version of a Stalinist system .... it baffles me to think that China would jeopardize everything that they have built in the past 35 years to protect someone like Kim Jong-Un. Unfortunately .... from my perspective .... they are signaling to South Korea/Japan/the U.S. that they will. I have said a few times in the past that culturally and historically no one comes close to the Chinese. But politically .... both on the national and international level .... they still have a lot to learn.
