Trump to Xi:" N. Korea's threat is going to end one way or another"

Xi's handshake dominates Trump's

President Trump is to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and has referred to China as a "great trading partner." But he made it clear that the increased North Korean threat will be resolved "one way or another."

The question remains, will Xi kiss our president's gold ring and say, "Your wish is my command, Don Trump."

But seriously, this meeting is going to be one of the most critical meetings Trump will have while at the G20. He has already answered Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's probing question as to where Mr. Trump gets his hair cut, and now he must face even bigger world issues.

China is North Korea's biggest trading partner, and has likely provided the regime with the mobile missile launchers they're using to flip the U.S. off. But this also gives China a large influence over Pyongyang and its development of a nuclear warhead.

Trump said that ending North Korea's missile testing "may take longer than I'd like, it may take longer than you'd like. But there will be success in the end one way or another."

It is unclear as to how long either gentlemen would like North Korea's threat to end, but it's highly likely that it's Trump whose timeline is significantly shorter than Xi's because China isn't the nation being threatened by a short, fat lunatic.

"Something has to be done," Trump added wisely.

Xi also got a word in but his comments were in Chinese, which Trump doesn't understand, and the interpreter was apparently on a tea and fortune cookie break.

Trump 'the businessman' said "many things have happened" that created trade imbalances between the US and China but "we're going to turn that around."

Trump was surrounded by about a dozen of his top administration officials and a boatload of Secret Service agents prepared to take a bullet for him. Among those who aren't were Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and son-in-law cum adviser Jared Kushner.

According to a Pentagon spokesman, the missile North Korea test-launched Tuesday was a type not previously seen by U.S. analysts. My guess is that it came from either China, Russia or Iran.

After said launch, Trump expressed frustration with China over the fact that trade not only hasn't decreased or remained the same, it actually expanded!

The President had originally expressed optimism after his first meeting with Xi, where they said they'd work together to rein in Kim Jong Un.  That debacle ended in a Wednesday tweet by Trump: "Trade between China and North Korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. So much for China working with us--but we had to give it a try!"

Those exclamation marks have become a signature punctuation for our president.

China has a history of allowing North Korea to slide when it comes to sanctions, partly out of fear of the instability that might occur with their "next-door neighbor" which also might result of an inundation of North Koreans fleeing to China. 

China also worries that a democratic Korea, that is, a Korea sans Kim Jong Un and future Kims, would be dominated by South Korea and put a U.S. ally along with U.S. military forces, on its border.

Rex Tillerson wants "stronger measures" holding NoKo accountable. "Global action is required to stop a global threat," he said, adding that any country that helps North Korea militarily or economically , taking in guest workers or failing to fully meet Security Council resolutions is "aiding and abetting a dangerous regime."

But Tillerson diplomatically didn't mention China.




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Europe is up to its eyeballs in refugees

"We will welcome them on the beaches. We will welcome them in our cities. We will welcome them with blood, sweat and tears. By Jimminy, there will always be a Germany." Angela Merkel's subconscious. 

According to the president of the European Union, Donald Tusk, the waves of refugees entering Europe may be coming to an end.

"The practical capability of Europe to host new waves of refugees, not to mention irregular economic migrants, is close to its limits," Tusk said at a news conference at the Group of 20 summit on Sunday. 

He urged the rest of the world to get on the bandwagon and make the same effort [aka mistake] as he made and take in as many refugees as they can and watch what happens to their economy and national security.

"Only global efforts supporting refugees and their host communities will be able to bear fruit," Tusk babbled on. "That is why we want to encourage our partners to increase humanitarian and development aid, as well as refugee resettlement. We need to address the root causes that force millions of people to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere," he added, never once mentioning Islamic terrorism that has been a global plague since Muhammed first married a six year old.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes she saw the possibility of a "positive outcome" to negotiations between Turkey and the EU on a visa waiver for Turks, but thought that it will still take weeks to work. 

After she made this claim, she passed the crack pipe to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who took a deep hit, agreed with Merkel that there was still work to be done, and passed the pipe to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

"We should build an open world economy," Xi said to an audience that included President Obama (who chomped at the bit when he saw the pipe), Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May, as well as leaders from South Korea, Japan, India and other governments.

The idea of scrapping visas for Turks entering the EU was to be an incentive for Turkey to agree on a deal to curb the scramble of migrants across the Aegean Sea. The deal is conditional, however, on a host of things such as how it defines terrorism and what constitutes an act of terror--this, to ensure that journalists and academics aren't arrested due to these claims made on them.

China would like to use its status at the G-20 to increase its influence in economically managing the world. Chinese officials say they want the G-20 to take on a longer-term regulatory role, and if China gets everything it wants, we will all be subservient to them.

Global trade growth this year has totally sucked at 2.8%. Leaders at the G-20 warn that they will call for "inclusive growth," a move to defuse pressure to protect local industries by spreading the benefits of "closer global integration to millions of people who have been left behind by wrenching changes," reported the AP. 

What this seems to translate to is that the G-20 is calling for total government control of world economies and trade which is a nicer way of saying 'socialism.'

Obama stressed how much he digs that idea when he spoke at a separate news conference with Theresa May.


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