Party, wrote that China should ?give up? on North Korea.
Writing in The Financial Times late last month, Mr. Deng asked what would happen if the United States launched a pre-emptive attack on North Korea: ?Would China not be obliged to help North Korea based on our ?alliance.? Would that not be drawing fire upon ourselves??
Moreover, Mr. Deng wrote, there was no hope that North Korea would overhaul its economy and become a normal country, a path urged in the past several years by the Chinese government. Even if the North?s new ruler, Kim Jong-un, wanted reform, the entrenched ruling elite ?would absolutely not allow him to do so,? because they know change would result in the overthrow of the government, Mr. Deng said.
Mr. Deng?s analysis was widely read, in part, because he has a habit of expressing provocative views that meld into the mainstream. Last year, he wrote an article that appeared in the online version of Caijing, a business magazine, that said failures had outweighed achievements in the decade-long rule of President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. After the article appeared, the era of Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen was often referred to as the ?lost decade.?
For all the concern about North Korea since the nuclear test in mid-February, there have been no concrete signs that China plans to take any action against the North beyond the United Nations sanctions.
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pretty much sums it up
