Just Saying | How Donald Trump is making China, not America, great again
Yonden Lhatoo puts the spotlight on how the US president is playing right into China’s hands, particularly in the context of the Singapore and G7 summits
“Art of the deal” my foot. I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor over what happened in Singapore this week.
As some eagle-eyed folks have pointed out, signing up for a humble iTunes account with Apple requires a much greater commitment to nuclear disarmament than the historic Trump-Kim accord, which merely states that North Korea “commits to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.
Compare this with iTunes, which makes it clear to users that “you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons”.
Considering how much Kim and his cronies are known to love iPhones, don’t be surprised if they’ve already capitulated more to Apple than to Trump.
They can also look forward to more of the latest electronic gadgets being smuggled into their pariah country, now that Trump has stated on the record that he knows China hasn’t exactly been doing its part to enforce sanctions against Pyongyang but he’s willing to turn a blind eye to it.
