Every state appreciates docile neighbours and it is especially
true for major powers. China is no exception. It has enjoyed North Korean
docility in the last seven decades and maintained its only formal military
alliance with it. Therefore, it’s strikingly difficult for China to watch, with
bated breath, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un’s upcoming meeting in Singapore to
unravel their mutual hostility.
North Korea has remained a captive market for China’s civil and
military goods and a major source of its seafood imports. China has also used
North Korea as an alarm button, pressing once in a while, to shape the regional
security narrative in East Asia. Every time the US forces conducted a military
exercise near China’s assumed red lines, both China and North Korea have
protested and threatened with retaliatory measures.
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