Is Korea Next for Xi's "Strategic Arson"?

About this episode

Frank Gaffney discusses Xi Jinping's visit to North Korea and its implications for U.S. foreign policy and military tensions in the region.

If past practice is any guide, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s state visit to North Korea yesterday afforded an opportunity for more “strategic arson” aimed at distracting the United States from his increasing preparations for acquiring Taiwan via force if coercive pressure and/or elections don’t have that effect. That could entail a manufactured ratcheting up of tensions with South Korea now controlled by another of Xi’s Communist allies, President Lee Jae-Myung. He’s long wanted to remove U.S. forces from the peninsula and would probably happily play along with a bit of PRC-directed theater to do so to avert a Potemkin crisis. Another ominous possibility is that Xi covertly directed Kim to join him in rearming Iran, building on their Chinese-approved collaboration on nuclear weapons by transferring one or more of them from Kim’s burgeoning arsenal to Tehran. Brace for impact. This is Frank Gaffney.

People in this episode

Host: Frank Gaffney

Topics covered

• China
• North Korea
• U.S. foreign policy
• Taiwan
• military tensions
• nuclear weapons

Keywords

• Xi Jinping
• North Korea
• Taiwan
• Lee Jae-Myung
• nuclear weapons
• Iran
• strategic arson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iran, PRC

Places: North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan

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