🇨🇳🚫🇰🇵 Even before Kim Jong Un sent troops to support Russia’s fight against Ukraine, there were signs that China was unhappy with his regime’s deepening ties with Moscow, – FT

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1. China is largely responsible for creating present day North Korea. If China had actually enforced all the sanctions imposed on NK they have agreed on, Kim would most likely not have functioning nukes now.

2. I don’t buy it. NK wouldn’t have sent troops without a silent nod behind the curtain from Xi. I think he’s just playing to the gallery with these official signals.

3. China is the only country that could get russia out of Ukraine today without firing a shot. China needs to get its client states in line

4. North Korea is a Chinese puppet, not a Russian one.
   North Korea does not send troops anywhere without Chinese support.
   North Korea sends troops to Russia because China cannot…. China cannot afford the complete break with the West that the presence of Chinese troops could bring. North Korea has no such burdens.

5. NK is just chinas plausible deniability pit bull. Want some chaos? Leave the side gate open.

6. As others have mentioned, and I feel compelled to reiterate, there is no chance this would happen unless China agreed.

7. They’re all turds floating in the same bowl. Nobody is doing anything without everyone agreeing. They have one thing western democracies can only dream of – the unity born of being grifting autocratic dictators.

8. Eh I’ll dissent and say I believe it. China may want a divide and conquer strategy where all their various allies are only allied *through* China, and importantly want to prevent North Korea achieving its goals independently of China. Otherwise there may be situations that arise where NK is able to enact policies against Chinese wishes because of a lack of effective disincentives. Not crazy things but NK may be able to put itself in a better deterring position against SK, or to get more trade through Russia and be less reliant on any one source.

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