My latest for @19_forty_five
I've always thought China overvalues N Korea as a 'buffer.'
TLDR:
"China’s support for NK alienates much of the world. It undercuts any claim to Chinese principled or benevolent leadership. It tars Beijing with partial
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I've always thought China overvalues N Korea as a 'buffer.'
TLDR:
"China’s support for NK alienates much of the world. It undercuts any claim to Chinese principled or benevolent leadership. It tars Beijing with partial
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responsibility for every outlandish act Pyongyang engages in. It provides ongoing justification for a large US presence in northeast Asia. It empowers a nuclear-armed regime which does not listen to Beijing and routinely violates the most basic norms of global governance. It
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spreads corruption and rot in the Chinese banking system, and among party and military elites with connections to NK. It proliferates. It dealt meth in China. And the conventional deterrent value purchased for all this headache is decreasing as US/allied technology outstrips
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anything NK can field, bar its nukes - which China opposes and are also pointed at Beijing to keep it out of NK affairs."
That's an ally? Good grief.
Yes, given the brewing cold war with the US, China will likely continue to bail out NK, but I'd say the equation is changing.
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That's an ally? Good grief.
Yes, given the brewing cold war with the US, China will likely continue to bail out NK, but I'd say the equation is changing.
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