Your Chance To Ask Questions To North Korea Expert Professor Zhu Feng

Here is a rare opportunity for those interested to ask questions to a noted North Korean expert Professor Zhu Feng from the University of Peking:

In the next part of our interview series, we’ll be speaking on 15 October to Zhu Feng, an internationally renowned expert on North Korea and nuclear disarmament. As before, we’ll be asking you to send your questions to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org .

Zhu is the deputy director of Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies and one of China’s leading scholars of international relations. He is a frequent guest on Chinese television and enjoys high-level policy access as an adviser to China’s leaders.

North Korea is a major diplomatic headache for Chinese leaders, and China is central to understanding the behavior of the reclusive state. As tensions have risen again in the Korean Peninsula over the sinking of a South Korean ship and an exchange of fire between the two countries, all eyes have been on China – as the source of 60% of the North’s foreign trade and the country’s only major ally, China is the only country that appears to have much influence.

However, China has consistently refused to censure North Korea’s leaders, keeping the country’s food and oil lifelines open despite hopes that it will use them to discipline the smaller nation.  [The Interpreter]

You can read more at the link but this question and answer series is being hosted by the Australian think tank the Lowy Institute.  If anyone has any questions they want asked to Professor Zhu Feng please e-mail them to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org.

Anyway here are a few questions I can think of off the top of my head:

• Does China have the creditability to criticize the ROK Naval base on Cheju Island when they are developing their own aircraft carrier?
• What is the legal basis for the Chinese government to claim the South China Sea as Chinese territory?
• What does he think of the US military’s development of ballistic missile defenses and its BMD cooperation with Japan?
• What would be China’s response if South Korea was to join the US BMD efforts?
• Does Professor Feng believe space should be militarized?  If not then why did China shoot down a satellite in 2007 that has led to massive space junk problems for the international community?
• What does Professor Feng think of the forced repatriation of refugees back to North Korea where they are either imprisoned or executed?
• Is it true that the Chinese government is continuing its Northeast Project in order to co-opt Korean history in case North Korea was to collapse and be absorbed into China like Tibet and East Turkestan?
• If North Korea was to collapse does Professor Feng think that the Chinese should occupy North Korea or should it be left to the South Koreans to handle?
• What would be China’s response if the US and South Korea in response to a North Korean attack were to launch their own offensive into North Korea?
•  Would China support a united Korean peninsula under democratic rule?
• Why doesn’t the Chinese government stop the out of control Chinese fish boats that routinely violate South Korean waters and even murdered a South Korean Coast Guard officer?
• China often claims it doesn’t interfere with country’s internal affairs.  With that in mind does he think it is appropriate for the Chinese embassy in South Korea to organize violent protests against Koreans?
• China is often accused of launching cyber attacks.  What would the Chinese response be if the US was to launch a cyber attack against China in response?

I could go on and on, but I will let others discuss in the comments section what other questions should be asked of Professor Zhu Feng?

By the way thank you to the Lowy Institute for hosting this as well as to Professor Zhu Feng for agreeing to answer questions from readers.

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Here is a rare opportunity for those interested to ask questions to a noted North Korean expert Professor Zhu Feng from the University of Peking:

In the next part of our interview series, we’ll be speaking on 15 October to Zhu Feng, an internationally renowned expert on North Korea and nuclear disarmament. As before, we’ll be asking you to send your questions to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org .

Zhu is the deputy director of Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies and one of China’s leading scholars of international relations. He is a frequent guest on Chinese television and enjoys high-level policy access as an adviser to China’s leaders.

North Korea is a major diplomatic headache for Chinese leaders, and China is central to understanding the behavior of the reclusive state. As tensions have risen again in the Korean Peninsula over the sinking of a South Korean ship and an exchange of fire between the two countries, all eyes have been on China – as the source of 60% of the North’s foreign trade and the country’s only major ally, China is the only country that appears to have much influence.

However, China has consistently refused to censure North Korea’s leaders, keeping the country’s food and oil lifelines open despite hopes that it will use them to discipline the smaller nation.  [The Interpreter]

You can read more at the link but this question and answer series is being hosted by the Australian think tank the Lowy Institute.  If anyone has any questions they want asked to Professor Zhu Feng please e-mail them to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org.

Anyway here are a few questions I can think of off the top of my head:

• Does China have the creditability to criticize the ROK Naval base on Cheju Island when they are developing their own aircraft carrier?
• What is the legal basis for the Chinese government to claim the South China Sea as Chinese territory?
• What does he think of the US military’s development of ballistic missile defenses and its BMD cooperation with Japan?
• What would be China’s response if South Korea was to join the US BMD efforts?
• Does Professor Feng believe space should be militarized?  If not then why did China shoot down a satellite in 2007 that has led to massive space junk problems for the international community?
• What does Professor Feng think of the forced repatriation of refugees back to North Korea where they are either imprisoned or executed?
• Is it true that the Chinese government is continuing its Northeast Project in order to co-opt Korean history in case North Korea was to collapse and be absorbed into China like Tibet and East Turkestan?
• If North Korea was to collapse does Professor Feng think that the Chinese should occupy North Korea or should it be left to the South Koreans to handle?
• What would be China’s response if the US and South Korea in response to a North Korean attack were to launch their own offensive into North Korea?
•  Would China support a united Korean peninsula under democratic rule?
• Why doesn’t the Chinese government stop the out of control Chinese fish boats that routinely violate South Korean waters and even murdered a South Korean Coast Guard officer?
• China often claims it doesn’t interfere with country’s internal affairs.  With that in mind does he think it is appropriate for the Chinese embassy in South Korea to organize violent protests against Koreans?
• China is often accused of launching cyber attacks.  What would the Chinese response be if the US was to launch a cyber attack against China in response?

I could go on and on, but I will let others discuss in the comments section what other questions should be asked of Professor Zhu Feng?

By the way thank you to the Lowy Institute for hosting this as well as to Professor Zhu Feng for agreeing to answer questions from readers.

– See more at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wPWOHNf5GqoJ:rokdrop.com/page/429/%3Fx%3D0%26y%3D0%252F+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#sthash.5HnNNg3w.dpuf

Here is a rare opportunity for those interested to ask questions to a noted North Korean expert Professor Zhu Feng from the University of Peking:

In the next part of our interview series, we’ll be speaking on 15 October to Zhu Feng, an internationally renowned expert on North Korea and nuclear disarmament. As before, we’ll be asking you to send your questions to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org .

Zhu is the deputy director of Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies and one of China’s leading scholars of international relations. He is a frequent guest on Chinese television and enjoys high-level policy access as an adviser to China’s leaders.

North Korea is a major diplomatic headache for Chinese leaders, and China is central to understanding the behavior of the reclusive state. As tensions have risen again in the Korean Peninsula over the sinking of a South Korean ship and an exchange of fire between the two countries, all eyes have been on China – as the source of 60% of the North’s foreign trade and the country’s only major ally, China is the only country that appears to have much influence.

However, China has consistently refused to censure North Korea’s leaders, keeping the country’s food and oil lifelines open despite hopes that it will use them to discipline the smaller nation.  [The Interpreter]

You can read more at the link but this question and answer series is being hosted by the Australian think tank the Lowy Institute.  If anyone has any questions they want asked to Professor Zhu Feng please e-mail them to blogeditor@lowyinstitute.org.

Anyway here are a few questions I can think of off the top of my head:

• Does China have the creditability to criticize the ROK Naval base on Cheju Island when they are developing their own aircraft carrier?
• What is the legal basis for the Chinese government to claim the South China Sea as Chinese territory?
• What does he think of the US military’s development of ballistic missile defenses and its BMD cooperation with Japan?
• What would be China’s response if South Korea was to join the US BMD efforts?
• Does Professor Feng believe space should be militarized?  If not then why did China shoot down a satellite in 2007 that has led to massive space junk problems for the international community?
• What does Professor Feng think of the forced repatriation of refugees back to North Korea where they are either imprisoned or executed?
• Is it true that the Chinese government is continuing its Northeast Project in order to co-opt Korean history in case North Korea was to collapse and be absorbed into China like Tibet and East Turkestan?
• If North Korea was to collapse does Professor Feng think that the Chinese should occupy North Korea or should it be left to the South Koreans to handle?
• What would be China’s response if the US and South Korea in response to a North Korean attack were to launch their own offensive into North Korea?
•  Would China support a united Korean peninsula under democratic rule?
• Why doesn’t the Chinese government stop the out of control Chinese fish boats that routinely violate South Korean waters and even murdered a South Korean Coast Guard officer?
• China often claims it doesn’t interfere with country’s internal affairs.  With that in mind does he think it is appropriate for the Chinese embassy in South Korea to organize violent protests against Koreans?
• China is often accused of launching cyber attacks.  What would the Chinese response be if the US was to launch a cyber attack against China in response?

I could go on and on, but I will let others discuss in the comments section what other questions should be asked of Professor Zhu Feng?

By the way thank you to the Lowy Institute for hosting this as well as to Professor Zhu Feng for agreeing to answer questions from readers.

– See more at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wPWOHNf5GqoJ:rokdrop.com/page/429/%3Fx%3D0%26y%3D0%252F+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#sthash.5HnNNg3w.dpuf