Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe And Mail: Vancouver summit risks angering China while it pressures North Korea on trade, critics warn
In the summer of 2017, Shuguang Kaixuan Mining Company went to court to defend itself against a creditor who wanted back nearly $40,000 lent to support the company's business of buying and selling North Korean mineral goods.
The dispute was longstanding, but this time Kaixuan had a new defence: It had no money, since the commodities it wanted to sell were stuck in North Korea.
"Because of the sanctions against North Korea, their normal work with iron ore has been halted," said Chen Weiguo, a lawyer for the company.
Over the course of a year in which North Korea claimed the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb and a missile capable of reaching deep into North America, Beijing has responded with heavy new restrictions on the nuclear-armed renegade state.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 15, 2018
The critical question: Why is North Korea going nuclear? -- Andrew Salmon, Asia Times
Ready for the Winter Olympics? How about war? -- Nikkei Asian Review
Philippine brass up in arms on the South China Sea -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times
Will It Even Matter If U.S.-Pakistan Ties Collapse Altogether? -- Steven Metz, WPR
Four-party talks with Taliban in Turkey could ‘pave the way’ to Afghanistan peace deal -- Chad Garland and Zubair Babakarkhail, Stars and Stripes
How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse -- Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker
Why the U.S. should support Iran protesters -- Roya Hakakian, Reuters
This Time, the Iron Fist Wasn't Iran's Only Protest Response -- Ladane Nasseri, Bloomberg
Trump and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- AFP
Dubai's the Very Model of a Modern Mideast Economy -- Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg
A New American Leader Rises in ISIS -- Seamus Hughes, Defense One
How and why Britain might be asked to vote once more on Brexit -- Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian
In NAFTA Talks, Canada Raises the Pressure on the US -- Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Venezuela: A country in meltdown -- Cristina Esguerra, DW
Pressure Rising on OPEC to Develop Long-Term Output Plan -- Robin Mills, Bloomberg
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