{"id":28951,"date":"2017-12-17T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28951"},"modified":"2017-12-17T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:33:16","slug":"china-should-prepare-for-nuclear-conflict-beijing-warned-to-be-ready-as-war-on-korean-peninsula-possible-at-any-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28951","title":{"rendered":"“China Should Prepare For Nuclear Conflict”: Beijing Warned To Be Ready As War On Korean Peninsula “Possible At Any Time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“China Should Prepare For Nuclear Conflict”: Beijing Warned To Be Ready As War On Korean Peninsula “Possible At Any Time”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Chinese government advisors and a senior military officer warned Beijing that it must be ready for a war on the Korean peninsula, with the risk of conflict higher than ever before, the SCMP reported on Saturday<\/a>. They also warned that Beijing, once seen as Pyongyang\u2019s biggest ally with influence over its neighbor, was losing control of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cConditions on the peninsula now make for the biggest risk of a war in decades,\u201d <\/strong>said Renmin University international relations professor Shi Yinhong, who also advises the State Council, China\u2019s cabinet. \u201cNorth Korea is a time bomb. We can only delay the explosion, hoping that by delaying it, a time will come to remove the detonator<\/strong>,\u201d Shi added on the sidelines of a Beijing conference on the crisis.<\/p>\n

Shi said US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were locked in a vicious cycle of threats and it was already too late for China to avert it. However, at best, Beijing could delay a full-blown conflict. Also addressing the conference was Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing’s Military Region, who warned that war could break out on the Korean peninsula at any time from now on until March when South Korea and the United States held annual military drills<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a highly dangerous period,\u201d Wang said. \u201cNortheast China should mobilise defences for war<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The warnings continued: Yang Xiyu, a senior fellow at the China Institute of International Studies affiliated with China\u2019s foreign ministry, said conditions on the peninsula were at their most perilous in half a century. \u201cNo matter whether there is war or peace, regretfully, China has no control, dominance or even a voice on the issue,\u201d he said. China might already be preparing for the worst.<\/p>\n

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