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<blockquote data-quote="Lunostrelki" data-source="post: 933784" data-attributes="member: 11498">RE: N.Korea: US student cries &amp; admits to being &quot;severe criminal&quot; during...Unlike Japan, which merely borrowed ideas and language from China, Korea is a peripheral nation that is used to being completely and utterly dominated by the Chinese in terms of official ideology and foreign policy. Korea&#039;s mode of national independence is to be protected and shaped by a larger country, whilst leeching off of it. Today the US rather than China fulfills the role of dominant power (for the ROK), but we see that Korea considers itself open to accommodating Chinese needs as well. Much of the Korean economy depends on China and their new liberal president just cancelled the THAAD deployment. I respect Korean culture and ethnic unity, but it must be said that their nation&#039;s way of going about the world is rather womanly -- one day they are with you, the next they ditch you. When Trump remarked that Korea used to belong to China, he wasn&#039;t totally off the mark (northern Korea has been under direct control of the Chinese court from time to time), but he was also giving the country a warning. It&#039;s one they probably won&#039;t heed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lunostrelki, post: 933784, member: 11498"] [b]RE: N.Korea: US student cries & admits to being "severe criminal" during...[/b] Unlike Japan, which merely borrowed ideas and language from China, Korea is a peripheral nation that is used to being completely and utterly dominated by the Chinese in terms of official ideology and foreign policy. Korea's mode of national independence is to be protected and shaped by a larger country, whilst leeching off of it. Today the US rather than China fulfills the role of dominant power (for the ROK), but we see that Korea considers itself open to accommodating Chinese needs as well. Much of the Korean economy depends on China and their new liberal president just cancelled the THAAD deployment. I respect Korean culture and ethnic unity, but it must be said that their nation's way of going about the world is rather womanly -- one day they are with you, the next they ditch you. When Trump remarked that Korea used to belong to China, he wasn't totally off the mark (northern Korea has been under direct control of the Chinese court from time to time), but he was also giving the country a warning. It's one they probably won't heed. [/QUOTE]

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