United Nations Sanctions - Bush backs down from “real” action
We could stop this North Korea situation RIGHT now. I mean the american people suffer through free trade long enough that we should be able to use it’s benefits in a situation like this.
The chinese don’t work for the chinese. They work for the USA. USA-related jobs make up employment for atleast 100 million families. China’s problem is they HAVE to choose inaction all the time to NOT piss off anyone. They have a huge coup risk. If they piss of any 2% extremist minority, that’s 25 million people, enough to throw a coup.
We have to FORCE china to make a decision. We can threaten to put tarrifs on chinese imports (which would help our economy anyways if we did it slowly and gradually increasing). That would make China have to choose between pissing off 300 million workers, and going into depression, or the maybe 30 million die-hard communists. I think they would make the right choice.
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Sanctions, Interrupted…
The UN passed the resolution unanimously, though it is far from sufficient to deter North Korea from continuing its militarism and nuclear weapons program. It specifically and explicitly rules out the use of force to enforce the resolution….