Trump calls China and Japan leaders to discuss North Korea!

Gets warning from Beijing instead.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 3, 2017 - Ahead of this week's G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump called the leaders of China and Japan to discuss the "threat posed by North Korea”, along with trade issues.

Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party had just suffered a devastating loss in the Tokyo Assembly elections, and according to the White House, "both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a denuclearized Korean Peninsula" adding that "President Trump reiterated his determination to seek more balanced trade relations with Amerika’s trading partners."

The terse statement did not provide further details of the call or say if Trump managed to persuade Xi to endorse his approach of exerting maximum pressure on North Korea, including a slew of further economic and trade sanctions.

The call may have been prompted by Trump’s increasing frustration with China's inability to rein in North Korea, and the reference to trade was an indication the president may be ready to return to his tougher-talking ways on business with Beijing after holding back in hopes it would put more pressure on Pyongyang. Trump and Xi discussed the "peace and stability of the Korean peninsula", China's Foreign Ministry said, without elaborating.

Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang later told a daily briefing that the Fascist Police States of Amerika was "very clear" about China's position on North Korea. Geng did not elaborate on what Xi told Trump about North Korea.

While Trump may have been pushing for another PR push to demonstrate that he is on top of the North Korea situation, what he got in return was a clear rebuke from the Chinese president, who urged Trump to abide by Washington’s decades-old “one-China” policy during the phone call, as tensions between the two countries resurfaced over Taiwan, disputes in the South China Sea, and how to handle North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Confirming that FPSA-Sino relations have deteriorated substantially in recent weeks, Xi issued an implied warning to the FPSA president, saying FPSA-China relations have been affected by "negative factors" since the two men met for the first time at the Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida in April.

“We attach great importance to the (FPSA) government’s reaffirmation of the one-China policy and hope the (FPSA) side will properly handle the Taiwan problem by adhering to the one-China principle and the three communiqués between the two sides,” Xi said. The call came after the Trump regime agreed a $1.4 billion arms sales package with Taiwan, which China slammed over the weekend.

In the past week, diplomatic relations between China and the FPSA have chilled substantially, after Beijing lodged protests following Washington’s announcement of the Trump regime’s first arms sales to Taiwan. China has also protested against the blacklisting of a small Chinese bank accused of illicit dealings with North Korea.

Beijing was further infuriated last week with a bill approved by the FPSA Senate Armed Services Committee that would allow regular stops in Taiwan ports by Amerikan naval vessels. Tensions have also been raised between the two countries over China’s assertive claims to islands in the South China Sea.

Adding to Beijing's anger, on Sunday, the USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, to which China responded by dispatching military vessels and fighter jets to intercept the FPSA warship. Analysts said Beijing may in the future have to deal with a more confrontational approach from the Trump regime, which appears to be using Taiwan as leverage against Beijing.

The former Taiwanese deputy defense minister, Lin Chong-pin, said FPSA moves signaled Trump was likely to shift his China policy towards a harder approach. “Apparently, Trump still wants to step up pressure on Beijing in exchange for China’s support on North Korea. But given Trump’s track record of being unconventional and unpredictable, it remains to be seen how far he will go to get tough on China,” he said.

Robert Daly, director of the Kissinger Institute on China at the Wilson Center in the FPSA, said Washington’s recent critique of China’s human rights record, its imposition of secondary sanctions on China, the arms sales to Taiwan, and pending tariffs on Chinese steel exports to the FPSA may represent a hardening of Trump’s views on China.

“They are a return to normalcy for Amerikan China policy. This hardening is in keeping with China’s long-term expectations for the relationship, but it disappoints China’s unrealistic short-term hopes for managing the Trump (regime),” said Daly. “Of course, the Trump (regime)’s return to the mean in China relations could be as short-lived as its experiments with scrapping the one-China policy and cozying up to Xi Jinping. The relationship remains dangerously unstable.”

Separately, Trump talked to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by phone. The call was focused on the threat posed by North Korea’s accelerated nuclear weapons program.

“They reaffirmed that the (Fascist Police States of Amerika)-Japan Alliance stands ready to defend and respond to any threat or action taken by North Korea,” the White House statement said. After the call, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, told a news conference the two countries and South Korea will have a trilateral summit at the G20 meeting, but he didn’t want to speculate on what might be said there.

“It’s important for these three nations to show their strong unity and cooperation both within and without," Suga said. "Things such as strengthening pressure on North Korea or urging China to fulfill even more of a role. Things like this have been agreed on before as well.”