china is just playing Trump. First china creates NK and then says they will rectify the problem if Trump backs off on trade problem.
Like the movie where the guy has a pet dragon and uses him to flame a village, then takes payment from the villagers to kill the dragon which he fakes.
china needs NK as a buffer zone between them and South Korea. We can help with that-it’s called a radioactive no go zone.
For decades China has used NK to blackmail the US. Now NK is a liability, though. If fighting resumes on the Korean Peninsula there will be 10 million refugees flooding into China that China really does to want. The Chinese hate the Koreans. So after all these years the paradigm has shifted. Trump is just taking advantage of this to pressure the Chinese. Fair enough, they used the Norks to pressure us for a long time.
“The world still turns our way”. Sevareid.