Texas-based project development company Energy Capital Vietnam (ECV) announced Friday it was forming a maritime security council with the participation of two retired senior naval officers.
in all of this in the big picture? china has been supporting north korea. secretary kerry talked about china s commitment. but the words from beijing were those of a decade ago. tellingly, we did not hear any new commitments. what s worse, starting on sunday and continuing through yesterday, chinese leaders have made these stinging attacks on the u.s., blaming us for the problems on the korean peninsula. you know, china has been basically throwing gas leb on the fire, supply the north koreans with mobile missile launchers that can hit the united states. that s i didn t think we need to have very different conversations with china than ker heyesterday. interesting quote in today s washington post from admiral locklear. it says, his father, referring to kim jong un and his father and grandfather were an off-ramp
responded to, locklear was clear in recommending not shooting down any missile if it was not, you know, targeted towards either an ally or u.s. bases in guam. i m anxious to get your assessment, fareed. secretary kerry is not making one of those high-profile visits to the dmz between north and south korea. it s usually a tradition for american dignitaries visiting the area, especially on a first trip as a secretary of state, to south korea, what does this say to you? i think that very clearly, wolf, you picked up on the two things, the canceling of the military exercises, or the camouflage of the military exercises, and kerry not going to the dmz. the signal is, we are not going to do anything that either inadvertently escalates this crisis. we re going to try to stay calm. we re not going to back down, but we re not going to step
administration wanted, and sent very clear signals from both the white house and the pentagon and the state department, that they wanted to move things into a more sort of diplomatic, sort of off-ramp kind of situation. because, it turned out, that one provocation from north korea was met with sort of, you know, here we can do this. the overflights, all the things the military was doing late last week. they decided to ratchet that down a bit, not wanting to provoke north korea into doing something unwise. so yes, some of those military exercises have either been canceled or are not being done in full public view. on the other hand, the united states has said, and admiral locklear said it very, very clearly, in congressional testimony, they have total plans to defend if necessary, not just the homeland which they do not believe will be attacked, but also the all yigs. and beyond that, as everybody tries to figure out if there s any missile launch should it be