{"id":319897,"date":"2017-08-02T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/china-rejects-trumps-accusations-over-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T07:30:20","slug":"china-rejects-trumps-accusations-over-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/china-rejects-trumps-accusations-over-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"China rejects Trump\u2019s accusations over North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>China rejects Trump\u2019s accusations over North Korea<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Chinese government has hit back at the Trump administration over accusations that Beijing has failed to halt North Korea\u2019s missile and nuclear programs. Following last Friday\u2019s long-range missile test by Pyongyang, Trump tweeted he was \u201cvery disappointed in China.\u201d He accused Beijing of doing \u201cNOTHING for us with North Korea\u201d despite a huge trade surplus with the US. \u201cWe will not allow this to continue,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>In unusually blunt language, an editorial this week in the state-owned Xinhua news agency declared that \u201cemotional venting cannot become the guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the [Korean] peninsula.\u201d It insisted that the US \u201cmust not continue spurning responsibility\u201d for its confrontation with North Korea and \u201ceven less should it stab China in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The editorial continued: \u201cTaking out this outrage on China is clearly finding the wrong target \u2026 What the peninsula needs is immediately stamping out the fire, not adding kindling, or even worse, pouring oil on the flames.\u201d It warned that the tensions with North Korea could \u201cevolve into a localised conflict, or even the outbreak of war, with unthinkable consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has opposed North Korea\u2019s nuclear and missile tests, out of deep concern that the US and its regional allies, especially Japan, have used them as the pretext for a military build-up in the Asia-Pacific that is primarily aimed against China. However, while imposing the UN\u2019s tough sanctions on North Korea, China has been reluctant to accede to US demands for crippling measures. It fears that a political crisis in Pyongyang could create the conditions for Washington to launch a regime-change&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/02\/usch-o02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 China rejects Trump\u2019s accusations over North Korea By Peter Symonds 2 October 2017 The Chinese government has hit back at the Trump administration over accusations that Beijing has failed to halt North Korea\u2019s missile and nuclear programs. Following last Friday\u2019s long-range missile test by Pyongyang, Trump tweeted he was \u201cvery disappointed in China.\u201d He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319897","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\/319897","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}