China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/24/china-unnerved-russia-growing-ties-north-korea-claims-us-official?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

19 comments
  1. When the two trashiest neighbors on the street start dating

  2. If China turns on Russia it’s going to be the funniest thing ever.

  3. The PRC (probably): the DPRK is my puppet state, keep your hands off of it

  4. We have already seen China court Belarus to kind of get back at Russia in a non confrontational way. Its bizarre. With allies like that who need enemies

  5. North Korea is China’s buffer state.

    The only reason North Korea is allowed to exist is China wants to have a country preventing Korea from being directly under them. It’s arguable the Chinese don’t want Korean unification because that would result in them needing to secure their southern border more heavily.

    The Russians having more direct influence over North Korea won’t play. China would probably back sanctions against North Korea if they thought there was a real chance they were losing control of them.

  6. They are so “unnerved” that China keeps secretly sending weapons to Russia, sometimes in North Korean wrapping paper!

  7. As they should. Russias offering better tech for their weapons, that can hit, you guessed it…. China

  8. Nah. NK is helping secure geopolitical/military support for Russia and China against the west. China will use NK to thwart US military bases, but on their cost.

      NK is trying to make “fetch” happen in a group of authoritarian regimes. Wanting to be apart of the popular group but we all know “fetch” with NK won’t happen. That doesn’t mean they’re not useful. 

  9. Are they really though? Last time I checked China likes to keep NK on a leash as well

  10. China is against the US, but they’ve gotten bigger problems brewing in their backyard.

  11. Probably because they have a defense treaty. They are fine with NK posturing but actively entering combat 7000km away while China has been providing them aid.

  12. The USSR created North Korea at the end of WWII, and Putin wants the whole Soviet empire back.

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