We Don't Have to Trade With China

Nope:

China's overall exports to North Korea more than tripled in 2022 from a year earlier as freight train operations between the two countries resumed following a suspension to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Chinese outbound shipments to North Korea surged 247.5% year-on-year to $894 million, trade data released by China's General Administration of Customs showed on Friday.

The top export items in terms of value were soybean oil, rubber tyres, granulated sugar, tobacco and unnamed medicines.

Pyongyang had stockpiled large amounts of Chinese medical goods including masks and ventilators in early 2022.

 

This North Korea: 

Just before midnight on January 17, 1968, 31 North Korean special forces soldiers cut through a wire fence along the demilitarized zone and infiltrated South Korea without detection.

The commandos, part of a specially trained force called Unit 124, had one objective: kill South Korean President Park Chung-hee.

Their plan was to covertly make their way to the presidential residence, a 62-acre compound known as the Blue House in Seoul's Jongno district.

Once there, they would bypass the outer checkpoints and then conduct an all-out assault on the main building. A little more than 300 yards from their target, however, everything fell apart. ...

North Korea no longer sends death squads across the DMZ — though it has practiced raids on a replica of the Blue House — but it continues to menace South Korea's leaders.

In 2015, Pyongyang warned that it could turn South Korea into "a sea of fire" if Seoul did not stop activists from sending balloons carrying leaflets into the North.

In December, a North Korean drone flew into a no-fly zone around South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's office in Seoul. It was one of five North Korean drones that flew into South Korea, the first to do so in five years.

The drones spent five hours over the South before returning home — an incursion that comes amid a record number of North Korean missile tests meant to show off the growing reach of its expanding arsenal.

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The Chinese Consulate in Vancouver asked the province in 2014 to give to a Vancouver-based NGO the driver’s licences of Chinese nationals who had surrendered them in exchange for B.C. licences, according to internal government documents.

The revelation comes amid heightened scrutiny of China’s overseas operations after reports emerged that the communist regime is operating unofficial police service stations abroad.

In 2012, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) sent a letter to several countries’ consulates informing them that their nationals were required to surrender the driver’s licenses issued by their home country upon receiving a B.C. licence. The letter said ICBC would securely destroy the surrendered licences, but also offered the consulates the option of having the original licences returned to their “home licensing authority.”

In a July 2014 email to a B.C. Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat official, Li Yue—who at the time was head of governmental and media affairs office for the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver—asked if the licences could instead be surrendered to SUCCESS, a Vancouver-based NGO that assists new immigrants.

“Since Chinese nationals here in BC come from different provinces of China, it is difficult to designate one unit to manage those licenses. While SUCCESS is a very well known non-governmental organization which provide [sic] good services to Chinese new immigrants,” the email says.

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Well, sir, it should have been done before:

Former President Donald Trump promises to ban Chinese nationals from buying farmland or owning telecommunications, energy, technology, and medical supplies companies in the U.S. if he returns to the White House, the New York Post reported Wednesday.