Tweet of the Day: Sanctions, What Sanctions?
|Sanctions, what sanctions? Chinese traders and investors on the border with North Korea are preparing for a boom. It's just a matter of time, they think. Our report from Dandong: https://t.co/LceVmqwEat
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) August 9, 2019
…. local authorities were much more lax about this than central ones. “It’s only illegal from Beijing’s perspective.”
“You can get everything you need for a comfortable life, except electricity,” said one recent visitor, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing future access. “If you are well connected and if you have the money, you can live a fairly comfortable life in Pyongyang.”
Beijing cut the power from the hydroelectric power station on the Yalu River near 수풍역 (Supung Station) more than a decade ago … because the Norks had never paid for the electricity.
Supung Station is a site of another broken bridge on the Yalu, Beijing would like to reconnect the railway line, connecting Shenyang to Pyongyang … just like the good old days of Manchukuo.
That broken bridge is about five miles southwest further down the Yalu River.
Quoting from the Washington Post, GI?
They’re less reliable than the official nork Ministry of Propaganda. Fifield celebrates the ChiCom attacks on UN sanctions (and those on Hong Kong) from her comfortable seat: another Walter Duranty, this time female and in Beijing, not Moscow.
How much protest has she supplied about the Chinese killing the Tibetans or Falun Gong, throwing Muslims into concentration camps, or the Stalinesque attacks on Hong Kong?
Like Duranty’s coverage of the Soviet starvation of Ukrainian people, I imagine. Differentiated from Tom Friedman by not creating woke taxi drivers out of her imagination.
I ahould add that her “reporting” on this “news” probably signals Emperor Xi wanting the focus off Hong Kong as he sends in troops.
Communists are so boringly predictable. Hong Kong is going to get the Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Tiananmen Square 1989 treatment.
I hope I’m guessing wrong. I think it’s going ro be horrific.
Commie moon is beating the Chinese investors to the nK investments
Emperor Xi is letting the Chinese taps open now.