President Trump tweeted about China and accused them of not taming their neighbor and ally, North Korea.
The Xinhua response issued late Monday and widely displayed on Chinese news websites said:
“Trump is quite a personality, and he likes to tweet. But emotional venting cannot become a guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula.”
President Trump responded with the following tweet:
I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
…they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
China responded (without exclamation points):
“Taking out this outrage on China is clearly finding the wrong target.”
“What the peninsula needs is immediately stamping out the fire, not adding kindling or, even worse, pouring oil on the flames… [The tensions could] evolve into a localized conflict, or even the outbreak of war, with unthinkable repercussions.”
China has said that the United States shouldn’t be relying so much on China to defuse the tensions with North Korea. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is calling on China to defuse the tensions. He said:
“China and Russia bear unique and special responsibility for this growing threat to regional and global stability.”
Mr. Tillerson told reporters at the State Department:
“We do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th Parallel.”
“You are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond. And we hope that at some point they will begin to understand that and we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them.”
As the tensions with North Korea have escalated, Trump has still treated the Chinese president as a friend. He once tweeted:
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017
The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi, said that it was up to the United States and North Korea to find a solution, not China.
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