Much like the Bush Administration's strategy of launching missile defense projects all along Russia's frontier in Eastern Europe, while publicly insisting they were meant to counter Iranian missiles that didn't have the range to get there in the first place, the Obama Administration's fledgling plans to put missile defense systems in eastern Asia is similarly using North Korea as an excuse to surround China.

That was the revelation of a WikiLeaks-released email, which included the contents of a June 2013 speech by Hillary Clinton to the bankers at Goldman Sachs. The speech was "private," like so many of her speeches to well-connected financial outlets, and during it she said the US had threatened to "ring China with missile defense" if China didn't help them crack down on North Korea.