{"id":141361,"date":"2026-09-03T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/141361\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:46:08","slug":"china-has-reasons-to-like-trumps-north-korea-outreach-and-reasons-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/141361\/","title":{"rendered":"China has reasons to like Trump\u2019s North Korea outreach \u2014 and reasons to worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tChina has reasons to like Trump\u2019s North Korea outreach \u2014 and reasons to worry\t<\/p>\n<p>Beijing may gain from reduced tensions and weaker alliance cohesion, even as direct US-DPRK talks threaten its influence<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-date\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/pro\/content_author\/john-petrushka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Petrushka<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\tSeptember 3, 2026\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"935\" height=\"500\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"China has reasons to like Trump\u2019s North Korea outreach \u2014 and reasons to worry\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-1-935x500.jpg\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un | Image: UK Foreign Office, Trump White House Archived via Flickr (June 30, 2019), edited by NK Pro<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s recent overtures to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appear to progress several of China\u2019s regional objectives: Washington has moved to scale back U.S.-South Korea military exercises, revived the prospect of direct diplomacy with Pyongyang and introduced new uncertainty into an alliance Beijing has long viewed as a constraint on its influence.<\/p>\n<p>However, China\u2019s reaction to date has been muted. Rather than openly welcoming the moves, Chinese commentary has largely taken a cautious approach, suggesting Beijing sees both opportunity and risk in a renewed U.S.-North Korea channel<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved.<br \/>No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for<br \/>\n\t\t\tcommercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk<br \/>\n\t\t\tGroup.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has reasons to like Trump\u2019s North Korea outreach \u2014 and reasons to worry Beijing may gain from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4122,141,31,3750,34],"class_list":["post-141361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-foreign-relations","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-leadership","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}