Symbol and Substance: China’s Scramble for Influence in the Korean Peace Process
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BY TOM FOWDY
Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un during the first of their meetings, in Beijing in late March. | Image: Xinhua News Agency
China’s cooperation in increasing international pressure on North Korea during 2017 served to accelerate declining relations between the two states. Now, with potential peace ostensibly looming, China is seeking to reverse course. A burst of diplomacy has Beijing scrambling to pick up the pieces and reclaim influence it feels it lost, all while Kim fitfully courts Washington. Pyongyang won’t easily play ball with Beijing. Tom Fowdy looks at the Chinese angle.– Christopher Green, Senior Editor.
Symbol and Substance: China’s Scramble for Influence in the Korean Peace Process
by Tom Fowdy
It is an alliance which exists more in symbolism than substance...