CUI BONO?: IS CHINA REALLY BEHIND NORTH KOREA'S AGGRESSION?

The USA has a long list of economic things we have wanted China to do for a decade --- like float the yuan/renminbi.

China doesn't want to.

And it appears no one can make them - especially now that the Obama Administration wants China's help taming the North Korean menace.

HMMM: Might China have encouraged recent North Korean adventurism as a distraction, so they can say to the Obama, "We will help you with North Korea but only if you leave us COMPLETELY alone as far as our currency goes and as far as our domestic human rights policies, too."???

This would get the Chinese off the hook. IOW: They use North Korea to trick us into letting them get to play the Good Cop while they're excused for pursuing economic and rights policies which hurt more than a billion people globally.

To believe that China has no involvement with North Korea's aggression, one would have to believe that North Korea is a rogue even as far as China is concerned.

IS THIS CREDIBLE!?

I think not: North Korea is ENTIRELY dependent on China and wouldn't do ANYTHING to jeopardize their relationship with China. China could topple Kim Jung Il anytime they want they wanted to. Kim knows this.

Apparently, the Chinese do not want Kin gone.

WHY NOT?!?!

The current tyrant of North Korea suits China's needs. It distracts the USA and the West from pressuring China for China's bad policies.

IMHO.