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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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By Simon Denyear @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 23
BEIJING — China demanded on Wednesday that the United States immediately withdraw new sanctions on companies and individuals trading with North Korea, saying such punitive measures will damage Sino-U.S. ties.
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions Tuesday on 10 companies and six individuals from China and Russia it said had conducted business with North Korea in ways that advanced the country’s missile and nuclear weapons program.
But China’s Foreign Ministry insisted that its government had fully implemented U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea and would punish anyone caught violating the Security Council sanctions under Chinese law [.....]
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Comes to mind getting tough on China would please the Christian Right, many of which still are big Trump fans, as this guy will probably be jailed by China next month:
I Won’t Put Xi Jinping Above Jesus
By DEREK LAM, guest op-ed @ NYTimes.com, AUG. 23, 2017
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 5:09pm
How Russia may benefit from North Korean sanctions
Shutting off raw material exports from North Korea could create demand for Russian supplies
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 12:26am
North Korea Mocks Trump’s ‘Weird’ Tweets
By Adam K. Raymond @ NYmag.com, Aug. 23
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 12:54am