{"id":55763,"date":"2017-12-30T05:12:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55763"},"modified":"2017-12-30T05:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:12:43","slug":"trump-frustrated-china-turns-blind-eye-kim-jong-uns-ww3-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/trump-frustrated-china-turns-blind-eye-kim-jong-uns-ww3-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump FRUSTRATED as China turns blind eye on Kim Jong-un&#8217;s WW3 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump FRUSTRATED as China turns blind eye on Kim Jong-un&#8217;s WW3 threat<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">NORTH KOREA will continue to be sold oil by China if Xi Jinping keeps \u201clooking the other way\u201d on private Chinese businesses, according to a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">North Korea was found to be sold oil at sea by Chinese ships and will still be able to do so if Xi Jinping doesn\u2019t toughen up his trading relation with Kim Jong-un, according to Michael O\u2019Hanlon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Soon after the discovery, President Donald Trump tweeted about his disappointment and frustration with China\u2019s behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Michael O\u2019Hanlon told CNBC News that despite China denying any knowledge of oil sales to North Korea, Xi Jinping could simply be looking the other way when private Chinese businessmen trade at sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">US satellite images showed Chinese ships selling oil to North Korea despite the latest UN sanctions prohibiting any country to do so in an attempt to stop the rogue state\u2019s threat of a nuclear strike. China denied knowledge of the transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mr O\u2019Hanlon said he believes Donald Trump and South Korea are telling the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The defence and foreign policy expert said: \u201cI believe the United States and South Korea, partly because I believe our intelligence in general but also South Korea has no particular interest to ruining further relations with China and I think their assessment is consistent with ours and re-enforces the point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAlso one can imagine how the Chinese spokeswoman could be sort of finessing this issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cShe could be saying \u2018there is no official Chinese policy to do this but the degree to which we clamp down on private businessman doing it, you know it\u2019s sort of variable and a function of a lot of things including our own capacity but also our own preference to really squeeze North Korea or not at a given moment\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThe fact that she\u2019s denying there\u2019s any official Chinese policy to allow this kind of shipment at sea, doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility of private Chinese ships and businessmen doing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He added: \u201cPerhaps with some degree of the Government looking the other way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">China has been criticised unanimously by the United Nations for failing to comply with the Security Council\u2019s sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Despite voting in favour of the sanctions himself, Xi Jinping continues to show little cooperation in the global attempt to stop Kim Jong-un.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/897954\/North-Korea-news-update-Donald-Trump-Kim-Jong-un-China-oil-export<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/trump-frustrated-china-turns-blind-eye-kim-jong-uns-ww3-threat.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump FRUSTRATED as China turns blind eye on Kim Jong-un&#8217;s WW3 threat NORTH KOREA will continue to be sold oil by China if Xi Jinping keeps \u201clooking the other way\u201d on private Chinese businesses, according to a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. 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