{"id":48924,"date":"2018-01-19T15:25:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48924"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:08","slug":"burton-china-the-winner-after-pointless-canada-u-s-meeting-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/burton-china-the-winner-after-pointless-canada-u-s-meeting-on-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: China the winner after pointless Canada-U.S. meeting on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/china-the-winner-after-pointless-canada-u-s-meeting-on-north-korea-90349?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2019%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2019%202018+CID_20d3652b2d47fc5524a50b6d5e86d575&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=China%20the%20winner%20after%20pointless%20Canada-US%20meeting%20on%20North%20Korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0about China&#8217;s position amidst global tensions after recent Canada-U.S. meetings about North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>This week\u2019s foreign ministers\u2019\u00a0meeting on security and stability on the Korean Peninsula\u00a0in Vancouver may have done global tensions more harm than good. If so, China will wait patiently to collect its geo-political winnings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And for Canada, the main legacy of the forum may be increasingly thorny relations with the world\u2019s emerging superpower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When the Vancouver conference concluded earlier this week, the takeaway was Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson imploring all United Nations members \u2014 including the absent Russia and China \u2014 to fully implement the UN Security Council\u2019s latest stringent sanctions designed to squeeze the North Korean economy with \u201cmaximum pressure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As Tillerson emphasized: \u201cThe purpose of the maximum pressure campaign is intended to cause North Korea to engage as a credible negotiating partner in addressing a pathway to a denuclearization of the peninsula.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/china-the-winner-after-pointless-canada-u-s-meeting-on-north-korea-90349?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2019%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2019%202018+CID_20d3652b2d47fc5524a50b6d5e86d575&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=China%20the%20winner%20after%20pointless%20Canada-US%20meeting%20on%20North%20Korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation\u00a0about China&#8217;s position amidst global tensions after recent Canada-U.S. meetings about North Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48925,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48924\/revisions\/48925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}