Did the Syrian air strike send a message to North Korea and China
Kim Yong-Hyun, a professor at Dongguk University, claimed the strike against Syria was a statement of intent
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) reported that the U.S. missile air strike on Syria last week was also meant to veer North Korea and it’s man ally, China from the path of nuclear determination.
While the timing was largely coincidental, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the strike while hosting a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The strike may have carried particular resonance given that the North’s nuclear ambitions and how best to stop them was among the top agenda items of their meeting. And exercising the military option added some extra weight to Trump’s recent threat of unilateral action against Pyongyang (the capital and largest city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) if Beijing fails to help curb its neighbor’s nuclear weapons program.
Considering that President Trump has gone as far as attempting to place immigration bans on countries predominately Muslim and how vehement the U.S. is in trying to stop North Korea from receiving Nuclear weapons, President Trump could potentially seek to place some sort of immigration policy restricting the flow of Chinese migration should the Chinese elect not to comply with the U.S.’s demands.
