{"id":335085,"date":"2017-11-15T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-asia-tour-leaves-region-on-brink-of-trade-war-and-military-conflict\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:51:30","slug":"trumps-asia-tour-leaves-region-on-brink-of-trade-war-and-military-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-asia-tour-leaves-region-on-brink-of-trade-war-and-military-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Asia tour leaves region on brink of trade war and military conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump\u2019s Asia tour leaves region on brink of trade war and military conflict<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    James Cogan<br \/>\n    <br \/>15 November 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The 12-day tour through Asia by President Donald Trump has underscored the reality that American imperialism\u2014a declining power wracked by external challenges and internal crises\u2014is the most volatile and destabilising factor in world politics. Trump generated even greater trepidation about his administration\u2019s policies than existed before the tour began.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate issue is if, or when, Trump will act on his threats to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea if the Pyongyang regime does not capitulate to the US demand for \u201ccomplete and verifiable denuclearization.\u201d North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has, thus far, rejected that demand.<\/p>\n<p>Despite numerous hints of behind-the-scenes negotiations to try to reach some form of compromise, Trump\u2019s bellicose and categorical rhetoric on the floor of the South Korean parliament last week has left his administration with little room to manoeuvre. He vowed that he would \u201cnot allow\u201d the North Korean regime to possess intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could reach the United States. His stance was unconditionally endorsed by Japan, Australia and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>For the White House to back down and accept North Korea possessing nuclear-armed ICBMs would be a debacle for Trump, under conditions in which his presidency is already under siege from his domestic political rivals. There would be savage recriminations within his administration, the military-intelligence establishment and the American ruling class as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The question posed by the WSWS in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/06\/pers-s06.html\">September 6 perspective<\/a> still looms over the world: \u201cWill Washington go to war to make good on its war rhetoric? Have the threats themselves\u2014and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/11\/15\/asia-n15.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump\u2019s Asia tour leaves region on brink of trade war and military conflict By James Cogan 15 November 2017 The 12-day tour through Asia by President Donald Trump has underscored the reality that American imperialism\u2014a declining power wracked by external challenges and internal crises\u2014is the most volatile and destabilising factor in world politics. Trump [&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-335085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}