[kidd]

North Korea is testing H-bombs and ballistic missiles...and China doesn’t want to impose sanctions (??)

I think China is using North Korea as a military proxy.

China will continue to act as a business competitor, acting like a pseudo-capitalist and a “normal” player in global markets...meanwhile North Korea is free to act as the bad guy and freely display its military intentions.

They are one and the same communist block. One side makes all the money then gives it to the other side to spend on tactical strike weapons.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is obvious that China uses N. Korea as its bloody henchman. China had done even worse in the past. China used genocidal Pol Pot's Cambodia as her henchman against the communist Viet Nam after Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. That scheme collapsed only when Vietnamese invaded Cambodia, and deposed Pol Pot. And who instigated such a move? The ever-so pragmatic and reform-minded Deng Xiao-ping.

China loves bloody henchman.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Chinese poker face on NK has gotten rather thin.
It’s long past time for this to cost something.