{"id":306163,"date":"2017-05-01T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-of-asia-looking-to-restore-its-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:57:37","slug":"germany-of-asia-looking-to-restore-its-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-of-asia-looking-to-restore-its-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGermany of Asia\u201d looking to restore its Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>While the new resident of the White House has been acquiring a taste for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/797120\/Donald-Trump-USS-Carl-Vinson-striking-distance-North-Korea-nuclear-blast-Kim-Jong-un\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">military adventures overseas<\/a>, the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, visited Moscow last Thursday for his <a href=\"http:\/\/journal-neo.org\/2017\/04\/28\/what-putin-and-abe-were-discussing-in-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17th talk with Vladimir Putin<\/a>. But, of course, their normal economic agenda, intended to hammer out the final details of some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/369482-kuril-islands-peace-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">painful bilateral issues<\/a>, was powerfully affected by events in North Korea. So what\u2019s the real political equation in the Eurasian Far East these days?<\/p>\n<p>The memorable dinner hosted by Pres. Trump for Chairman Xi and served up with the added flourish of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/apr\/12\/trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a missile strike on a Syrian air base<\/a> was hardly a diplomatic success for the new administration. The Chinese leader has apparently turned a deaf ear to the president\u2019s demands to revalue the yuan and thus financially offset the enormous US trade deficit with its biggest economic partner. But one of the few advantages of having a businessman in the Oval Office is that he always has a non-business argument when trapped in any sort of business quagmire. Teasing a <em>limitrophe<\/em> that is loyal to your adversary is the first-choice option in such cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/germany-of-asia-looking-to-restore-its-sovereignty\/thaadmap\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-67680\" src=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thaadmap-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thaadmap-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thaadmap.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Nearly 63 years after the end of the Korean War, during which the United States Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/nautilus.org\/napsnet\/napsnet-policy-forum\/0503a_cumings-html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped more conventional and napalm bombs<\/a> onto North Korea than did all the Allies onto Germany during the WWII, Washington is still officially in a state of war with Pyongyang.\u00a0 And it is precisely this powerful factor of ambiguity that <a href=\"http:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2010\/05\/12\/why-does-north-korea-need-nuclear-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drives the awkward nuclear ambitions<\/a> of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/germany-of-asia-looking-to-restore-its-sovereignty\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the new resident of the White House has been acquiring a taste for military adventures overseas, the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, visited Moscow last Thursday for his 17th talk with Vladimir Putin. But, of course, their normal economic agenda, intended to hammer out the final details of some painful bilateral issues, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}