Agree: eating is #1 need

If you read a lot in US media, you would know very well how well US understand what role N. Korea play in Sino-US relation. Everyone in US knows that China prefer N. Korea being buffer zone to west. It might, I say might serve US interest in Asia too.

It seems to me that you believe money solve all problems. Every subject you get on, you seem always look in your wallet. I can understand that and nothing wrong with it, either.

In human history, there have been several countries once dominating the world. Rome Empire, China ( Tang ), old Eypty to name some of them. Now it is United States. In US, many social scientists have been constantly and strenuously conducting research on the causes why those old giants became so dominant and but faded away eventually. what social forces that faild them? What did these old giants do wrong? Their goal is to try learn lesson and avoid the same fate here. But without any disagreement, their research shows that economy plays no role for being superpower. Economy is just phenomenon or result of something these old giants did.

Chinese have been in proverty for a long, long time. I do not blame them for such narrow minded,short sighted. After all, one has to eat before doing anything including thinking.