How China Could Use North Korea Against the us. Of all the parties involved in the Korean missile crisis, the most difficult to read is China.

How China Could Use North Korea Against the us.
Of all the parties involved in the Korean missile crisis, the most difficult to read is China.

China’s talks about the need for a peaceful resolution do little to reveal what China’s real interests and objectives are. And what they are is multiple and conflicting.

At one level, China is concerned with the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula. China doesn’t want Pyongyang to have nuclear weapons, and it doesn’t want the peninsula to unify. (George Friedman discussed the geopolitical reality of China and North Korea in its exclusive e-book, The World Explained in Maps, which you can download here)